Description:
The Ceresco Baptist Church is one of the area's oldest churches and continues to meet in the original building at at 230 Marshall St. in Ceresco. The congregation was born at a meeting of 22 people in 1854 in a stand of woods south of the Kalamazoo River. The members dedicated their church building — a 30-by-52-foot frame structure — in 1859. The church installed a 600-pound bell in the belfry in 1878, expanded the church in 1954 and added an educational wing in 1961.