Jay Bird Lane, a well-traveled local route, dates from the early 1860s. In 1883, landowners donated three acres to preserve the nearby Jay Bird camp meeting grounds. Residents soon built a frame building that officially served the Union Grove School Community. The Jay Bird Freewill Baptist Church also met there, and a cemetery was established, with the earliest marked grave dating to 1884. The school closed in 1919, and the building was destroyed by a 1940s tornado. A 1945 structure was replaced in 1974 by the Cemetery Association, which hosts a meeting each first Sunday in June.