Broadmouth Baptist Church, named for nearby Broadmouth Creek, was organized in 1837 with nine charter members. Rev. William P. Martin was its first minister, and William Long and Noah Riddle Reeve were its first deacons. This tract was purchased from Jesse Gent in 1838. By 1850 the church had 213 members, both white and black. After the Civil War, former slaves left to organize New Broadmouth Baptist Church. William P. Martin served as pastor for 39 years, from 1837 to 1877, and was succeeded by Rev. Richard W. Burts, who served 33 years, from 1877 to 1910. The present sanctuary, the second on this site, was built in 1954. William Pleasant Kay donated the land where the cemetery was first laid out, and it contains the graves of early pioneer families, including veterans of several wars.