Brooklyn Baptist Church was organized by Elder Alexander Travis in 1821 in a log building in mid Brooklyn that served as both a school and a house of worship beside the Methodist Cemetery. Elder Travis served for many years as preacher of Brooklyn Missionary Baptist Church. In 1860, Eli Hirchfelder conveyed title to three acres of land up the hill adjoining Brooklyn Academy to the trustees and deacons of the Missionary Baptist Church congregation: Charles Floyd, Zechariah Williams, Charles W. Snowden, and Andrew J. Robinson. On this land, called Academy Hill, the current church sanctuary was completed in October 1861. The Floyd family gave land for the cemetery to the church in 1862. The church was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage Committee in 1983 and continues to provide a place where God's word is proclaimed some 200 years later.