In this vicinity at Ebenezer Station, Oklahoma's first Baptist church was organized on Sept. 9, 1832, by Rev. Isaac McCoy with six charter members: Quasch, Bob, and Ned, slaves of the Creeks; Rev. and Mrs. David Lewis, missionaries; and John Davis, a Creek who later became the first Baptist minister ordained in what is now Oklahoma. The church grew until the Civil War, when it ceased activities until the Era of Reconstruction. It used meeting houses in various locations, including a frame structure built in 1901 at the site of the present building erected in 1956 by Black, Indian, and White Baptists of Oklahoma, symbolizing those races in the church's origin.