Middle Run Primitive Baptist Church

GROUP OPENS DOORS TO 1799 HISTORIC CHURCH

The public will get a rare look inside the oldest church in Greene County on Sunday, July 31, as a preservation group hosts an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. at Sugarcreek Twp.'s Middle Run Primitive Baptist Church.
The free Founders Day celebration will commemorate the history of the church, established in a log cabin in 1799, and the adjacent cemetery. In addition to tours of the existing church building, constructed in 1856, the event includes refreshments, food, live bluegrass music, and a quilt exhibit with an antique spinning wheel.
The church is at 3484 Middle Run Road just south of Bellbrook, near the junction of Greene, Montgomery and Warren counties. It was founded by members of the intensely conservative predestinarian branch of the Baptist faith.
Its congregation dwindled to just two members by the 1980s and has been largely dormant for decades. In recent years, the nonprofit Middle Run Preservation Association, which is sponsoring the event, has been working to preserve and restore the church.
For further information, contact Teresa Scott Phillips at (937) 848-8382, Nina Scott Wilcher at (937) 848-2488, or Melissa Beal Beyerlein at (937) 260-7131.