St. Frederick Baptist Church has served the African American community of Marble Falls for more than 120 years. It was founded in the home of Dicey Yett Johnson in 1893 by a small group of worshipers who became the St. Frederick congregation. Johnson was born into slavery in the nearby Spicewood area and married Green Johnson. They moved with their nine children to Marble Falls, founded in 1887, and lived in a small house behind the Roper Hotel where Dicey was employed. Dicey used his home as the organizational site of the congregation until it began using the former Blazing Star Lodge building in 1899. As the African American community moved from the northeast section of Marble Falls to the southwest portion of town, St. John’s Association in 1907 traded land on Main Street for property down the hill near Avenue L, where the building was moved and remodeled, and church and school soon resumed there. In 1955 the church in the hollow was torn down and rebuilt at the corner of Avenue N and West First Street. The current church, built in 1978 at Avenue N and West Third Street, survived the financial hardships of the 20th century. Since 1985 the church has also included an outreach center that provides meals for the needy and homebound throughout the Marble Falls area.