The Church was built in the early 1900s in Gretna, FL. After the railroads came to Florida in the late 1800s, Gretna sprang up as a turpentine town north of Tallahassee, in an area where black and white families were settling. The Church building was originally a one room schoolhouse for African American students.

With the decline of turpentine, and the stress of the Great Depression, the town of Gretna slumped. It was reincorporated in 1947, one year after Gretna’s Holy Ghost Church burned and the one room school house was converted into a church. The benches in the Church are original to the building.

The cemetery located beside the Church was recreated using original headstones, donated to Cracker Country when families replaced the old markers.

This map shows where the Church was originally located: