First Baptist Church

Organized as Cool Springs Baptist Church in John Bostick home in 1848-met there until 1855, about 500 feet west. First log Meeting House and Cemetery on Vance Street, 1855-1867. Second church house located in present Cool Springs Cemetery, 1867-1889. Church deeded cemetery to town of Forest City in 1938. Third church house (Forest City Baptist) was located on this site and was first brick building in Forest City, 1889-1915. Served as public school 1915-1922. Site of parsonage 1923-1985. Fourth and present church erected in 1915. Alexander Memorial Educational Building, 1927. Listed in National Register of Historic Places 1989.