This church, cemetery, and school form the classic tripartite institutional landscape of rural Mississippi, common to both black and white rural neighborhoods (see Acona, YB46), but persisting longer in black communities. Although the church was organized in 1881, the oldest building remaining on the property is the one-room school, its gable-front form and central entrance still recognizable though obscured by modern replacement materials. According to church tradition, it was built around 1931 by carpenter Anderson Powell. The cemetery in front was probably in use for fifty years before the earliest extant headstones, which are concrete. Nearby, in a depression that may have been the original baptistry, is a concrete rectangular baptismal pool (now dry) with a concrete stile. The brick church itself was rebuilt in 1979, a time when many African American congregations could finally afford to replace their small frame churches with modern brick ones.