Pleasant Grove African Methodist Episcopal Church was organized on June 29, 1869, at Taylors Creek, Georgia, with Rev. Piner Martin as its first pastor. Its first church, a small frame house, was named A.M.E. Church of the U.S.A. Sixteen acres of land were later purchased to build a larger church named Pleasant Grove, with Sam Frasier, Syrus Smiley, Sam Martin, and Sol Smith serving as trustees. The U.S. Government purchased the original church site to establish Camp Stewart in 1941. In 1943, a new church was built on Highway 38 in Allenhurst, Georgia, with Rev. Garfield Jackson as pastor and R.W. Bacon, J.F. Slater, W.A. Frasier, and I.S. Frasier comprising the Building Committee. The Pleasant Grove Camp Meeting is recognized as the sole event reuniting African American families from Taylors Creek, Wille, Cypress Slash, Strum Bay, and other disbanded communities, and for those former residents Camp Meeting is the tie that binds.