Ways Baptist Church was established in 1817 as Darcy’s Meeting House by members of Brushy Creek Church. In 1868 the church organized Stellaville School, which remained active until the mid 1940s. As the county’s only high school outside Louisville, Stellaville attracted students from as far away as South Carolina. Its faculty included leading Georgia educators such as Professor V.T. Sanford of the Sanford family of Mercer University. These instructors were brought to Stellaville by Reverend W.L. Kilpatrick, who chaired Mercer’s trustees and led the Ways Baptist Church congregation from 1866-1891.