Fellsmere Union Church, at 12 North Hickory Street, was the first and oldest church in the City of Fellsmere. In July 1912, the Reverend James A. Liggitt of the Presbyterian Church of London, Ohio, and a property owner in Fellsmere, spoke of strong local support for a church unity organization, or Union Church, at a time when the Union Church movement was spreading across the United States and Canada. The Reverend Fletcher D. Baker, who later became the church’s first minister, arrived in Fellsmere in October 1912 at age 68 and built a cottage at New York Avenue and Orange Street; his wife, Ella Vanarsdel Baker, had died the previous month at age 65. Born in Indiana and later living in Illinois, Baker had served as a private in the Union Army from 1862 to 1865, fought at Gettysburg, and was ordained a Methodist Episcopal minister in 1871. On December 12, 1912, Baker, R.A. Conkling, and Victor J. Hadin were appointed to consider forming a Union Church. By January 23, 1913, at least 24 donors, including the Fellsmere Farms Company, supported the church, and in a January 14, 1913 letter General Manager Ernest H. Every stated that the company donated Lots 10 to 17 in Block 77 for it. Lumber was ordered by February 6, 1913, and Hadin built the original one-story wood-frame 40'x60' church with a 10'x10' square bell tower over the next three months. The first non-denominational worship service was held on Sunday, May 4, 1913, electricity was added in August, membership reached 101 by 1914, and the church was incorporated in 1920. On January 6, 1926, the congregation voted to rename it the Fellsmere Community Church, and it was incorporated under that name on September 14, 1953, by church member Ernest H. W Everett.