Spring Green Primitive Baptist Church stands at the northeast junction of a rural crossroads between the Roanoke River towns of Hamilton and Williamston, and its pastoral setting has changed little since this front-gable frame meeting house was built more than a century ago. The church and cemetery occupy a triangular three-and-a-half acre tract on both sides of Spring Green Road and NC Highway 903, surrounded by cultivated fields and small patches of pine woods much as they were in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Because of an 1884 Martin County Courthouse fire, the first of three deeds for the property cannot be found and part of the second deed's land description is missing, but deeds were issued in 1811, 1851, and 1878. The first church building was a log structure with a dirt floor, one door, and one window behind the pulpit. It was abandoned in 1851 after J.B. Griffin deeded the church a parcel of land and a second building was erected. That second building burned in 1861, and the early church records are assumed to have been lost in the fire. In 1878, S.W. Outerbridge and R.D. Matthews deeded land for a third building, and the present church is thought to have been constructed across the road from the one that burned. During the Civil War, Federal forces moving through the area occupied Spring Green Church. The present 1879 weather-boarded church has the overall appearance of a large gabled box, with late Greek Revival features seen in its massing, the proportions of its doors and windows, molded corner pilasters, pedimented gable ends, and small louvered ventilators. It measures thirty-six feet, four inches wide at the gable ends and fifty-five feet, four-and-a-half inches long at the side elevations, rests on low handmade brick piers with a twentieth-century latticework brick infill, and has elongated six-over-six double-hung sash windows along its north, south, and east walls.