A Baptist meeting house stood by 1780 on the north side of the road from Patterson to Carmel near what was later identified as the town’s oldest burying ground, though the date the church building was first erected is unknown and no records of its pastors or members survive. The congregation, reported to have existed on that site for many years, was constituted on December 1, 1790, as the Second Baptist Church of Fredrickstown with thirty members and was incorporated under New York State law on September 15, 1794. About 1812 the old building was moved a mile and a half south to the present location, then known as Towner’s Four Corners, where it remained until a new building was erected and dedicated in March, 1836. After the Civil War, in 1867, just before a second railroad line was extended through the area, the present building replaced the previous one, which had been used for more than thirty years, and it was dedicated on October 16, 1867. The church came to be called the Rock Church because it stands on the summit of a ridge where limestone reaches the surface, and the burying ground opposite it, first used as a family burying ground, was given to the trustees by John Towner on April 2, 1828.