Most everyone calls it Center Hill because it was located at the cemetery. This church was not a part of the one that stood inside the cemetery first. The people would come and decorate the graves. Then Preacher Jowers would preach in the cemetery, then they spread dinner on the ground and sing in the afternoon. Another reason it was a big day years ago was that everyone bought themselves all new clothes, hats and shoes to wear to the decoration.
People always come from far and near to honor their loved ones and to talk of the good old days.
The Baptist Church was the only church in the community until 1963, when the Center Hill Holiness Church was erected across the road from John Beecham s house. This church started at Stegall and later moved to the Thomas schoolhouse and then on to Center Hill. May. The school was also built. The Wilkinson School house was to the south-east above the David Neisler hill. The Thomas schoolhouse was to the north almost where Pine Lake is now.