Antioch Baptist Church

Organized on June 5, 1818, at Mt. Meigs, Antioch Baptist Church was the first church of any denomination established in Montgomery County. Rev. James McLemore was its founder and first pastor. Like most churches in the county, it had both white and black members before the Civil War and Reconstruction era. It was officially incorporated in May of 1911 under a 9-man board of trustees. In 1919, the congregation built a new church building on land adjoining the Peoples Village School using material from the old church building; it was bricked and rededicated in 1980. In 1989, classrooms and a fellowship hall were added, and a larger sanctuary with a capacity for 1,500 worshipers followed in 1999. The public road leading to the church is designated Antioch Lane in recognition of the role it has played in the surrounding communities.

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