Construction of Dighton Community Church began in 1770 on the eastern edge of the Great Cornfield of the Pocanocket Indians. Work stopped during the American Revolution, when the church was used as a soldiers farmed and sheepfold, and was completed in 1798. Its bell was cast at the Revere Foundry in Canton and purchased by Joseph Revere in 1821, and the tower was added three years later. The church was modernized in 1861 and restored in 1930. The Pedo Baptist (Child Baptizing) Congregational Society of Dighton was incorporated June 25th, 1798.