Clinton Baptist Church

Clinton Baptist Church. . This church was organized in 1838 as Concord Baptist Church, located nearby on Trussells Creek. The first minister was Rev. William Manning. Charter members were: Mr. and Mrs. Moses Buttler, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Childs, Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Keith, Mr. John Richardson, Miss Elizabeth Tutt, and Mr. and Mrs. W.O. Williams. After seven years the name was changed to Clinton Baptist Church to reflect the location in the community. The church membership grew considerably in the late 1840s and 1850s. This growth along with frequent flooding of Trussells Creek led the congregation to erect a new building., The original building was sold after the present building, a vernacular interpretation of the Greek Revival style of architecture, was dedicated in 1859. From the poverty which followed the Civil War to the 1920s, the Clinton community as well as the church went into a decline. But in the mid-1920s, when members of the Henderson, Pearce, Porter and Winston families from the Beulah Church joined the Carpenter, Pippen, and other remaining members, this church reorganized and the bell began to ring again. , Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage 1996.