Swift Creek Baptist Church is documented as early as 1789, when it belonged to the Charleston Baptist Association and had 76 members. It took its name from Swift Creek and built its first and later churches near the creek. The congregation grew after a revival in 1829 and joined the Welsh Neck Baptist Association in 1831, soon becoming a central part of the rural community. The congregation acquired this site in 1844 during the long pastorate of Rev. William Beck, who served from 1833 to 1876. The historic cemetery here dates from 1878. A large frame church built here in 1903 and described by the Baptist Courier as "a model house" when it was dedicated was replaced by the present brick church in 1950 during the pastorate of Rev. E.B. Bagby, Jr.