Founded in 1880 by 26 charter members, Kingston Baptist Church was established when the town of Kingston was created on the route of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad. When the Gulf, Colorado, & Santa Fe Railroad built another line three miles north of here in 1886, Kingston's growth halted and many businesses moved to Celeste, the town formed at the new crossing. The church remained in Kingston, built a second sanctuary in 1947, and in 1985 volunteers from Kingston area churches and East Mountain Baptist Church constructed a new building in one week.