Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church was founded on land donated by Moses and Matilda Watson and was the first African American church in the Bloomingvale community. It was organized by trustees Orange Bruorton, Augusta Dicker, Sr., Fred Grant, Esau Green, Fortune Session, Moses Watson, and Richmond White. It also served as the mother church to Bruorton Chapel A.M.E. Church, which remained active until the 1950s. Mt. Zion also sponsored Mt. Zion School, which closed in 1958. The first sanctuary, a wood frame church, was replaced in the early 1920s by a second wood frame church built by carpenter Rev. W.C. Ervin, Sr. The present church, the third to serve Mt. Zion, was built from 1948 to 1954 by carpenter Rev. W.C. Ervin, Jr., and it was covered in brick veneer in the late 1950s.