Allison Creek Presbyterian Church was founded in 1854 by residents of the Clay Hill community on Allison Creek who were members of Bethel, established in 1769, and Ebenezer, established about 1785, Presbyterian churches. They soon built the church on land donated by J.D. Currence, and Rev. J.R. Baird, its first pastor, served until 1866. A graveyard just east of the church cemetery was begun in the 1850s for both slave and free black members of the church. Used until about 1896, it contains about 300 graves, 14 with engraved stones and the rest marked by field stones or left unmarked. After 1865, black members of Allison Creek left to form Union Baptist in 1892, Liberty Hill A.M.E. Zion in 1896, and New Home A.M.E. Zion in 1897.