Pleasant Hill Baptist Church
Welcomes You
P.O. Box 844
Copperhill, TN 37317
423-496-3744
James A. Cheatham, Pastor
PLEASANT HILL BAPTIST CHURCH
This article appeared in The Heritage of Polk County 1839-1997 Book
Submitted by :Helen Weaver Casada
Pleasant Hill Baptist is the oldest church in East Polk County, Tennessee. The village of Pleasant Hill was settled in the early 1840s. The earliest settlers came into East Polk County from North Carolina, and North Georgia before copper was discovered, and settled near the state line. The first road followed the old Indian Trail from North Georgia.
Long before there was a church our ancestors were worshipping in brush arbors. Finally the Baptist erected a church building near the state lines of Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina. This ancient church is three miles from the basin's largest town, Copperhill. However, there was no Copperhill or even a McCaysville at the time it was built.
The cemetery at Pleasant Hill Baptist Church has some of the oldest graves in the area. It is still in use in 1997.
