Oolenoy Baptist Church, named for the Cherokee chief Woolenoy, was organized in 1795 by Rev. John Chastain, its first minister, and by 1797, with 50 members, it was admitted to the Bethel Baptist Association; it later belonged to the Saluda, Twelve Mile River, Pickens, and Pickens-Twelve Mile Baptist Associations. Rev. Tyre L. Roper, its longest-serving minister, preached there from 1840 until his death in 1876. Its first sanctuary was a log building, replaced about 1830 by a frame church that was later enlarged in 1876 and 1899, and the present brick sanctuary was built in 1952. Its cemetery includes the graves of many veterans of American wars from the Revolution through World War II.