Clinton Baptist Church began in 1838 as Concord Baptist Church near Trussells Creek, with Rev. William Manning as its first minister and charter members including Mr. and Mrs. Moses Buttler, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Childs, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Keith, Mr. John Richardson, Miss Elizabeth Tutt, and Mr. and Mrs. W.O. Williams. After seven years, the church took the name Clinton Baptist Church to reflect its location in the community. Membership grew considerably in the late 1840s and 1850s, and that growth, along with frequent flooding of Trussells Creek, led the congregation to build a new church. The original building was sold after the present building, a vernacular interpretation of the Greek Revival style, was dedicated in 1859. From the poverty that followed the Civil War into the 1920s, both the Clinton community and the church declined, but in the mid-1920s, members of the Henderson, Pearce, Porter, and Winston families from Beulah Church joined the Carpenter, Pippen, and other remaining members, and the church reorganized and its bell rang again.