Salem Baptist Church

Pike County's oldest church

Organized by Dr. C.T. Mahoney

Since 1824 it has enriched

the life of this section

Here were organized:

Salem Baptist Association, 1839

Baptist General Assoc., 1868

Ladies Aid Society, 1891

Salem-Troy Baptist Assoc., 1904

Women's Missionary Society, 1905

First a log structure, the church had occupied ...

Greater New Salem Primitive Baptist Church

New Salem Primitive Baptist Church came into existence from its "mother church," Mt. Moriah Primitive Baptist Church in Tampa. Rev. G.S. Crawford, from east Florida, organized New Salem in 1905, which first held services in a one-room building on ...