Princeton First Baptist Church was organized on March 30, 1850, under the leadership of the Rev. James Mansfield and a presbytery from Donaldson, Harmony, and New Bethel Baptist Churches, beginning with 11 members. The first church, built in 1851, stood on Vine Street and was used by Union troops as a hospital stable for their horses. A second building was built in 1881 on the southwest corner of this site, but it burned in 1893. A third church was built by July 1896. In 1927, Frank Blackburn was hired to supervise construction of the current sanctuary with the first educational annex, and in 1959 the church added the present educational wing and chapel.