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The Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church was established in 1866; one year
after the Civil War. The first meetings were held as bush meeting with
traveling ministers. The original church foundation was located on the Old
Yorkville-Villa Rica Road along with the first established church cemetery.

After the church was burned; land was purchased from Mr. Beryl and Mrs. Dinah Williams, to establish a new church on the present site. This deed was recorded on January 31, 1891. The church was relocated to this site in 1920, a few feet from the present church with its front facing the cemetery. The old church built in 1920 was torn down and the current church was built in 1981.