The History of Crawford County published in 1885, records that the structure was built in 1838 as Spring and Cussewago Baptist church. The congregation was formed in the spring of 1837 with Albert Keith as Elder and William Case, the First Deacon. An initial membership of 27 soon grew to 80 but then the congregation diminished so that by 1852 the church was abandoned and the congregation was affiliated with the Springboro Baptist Church.
By 1885, the church was still unoccupied. It appears that the church's existence consisted of long periods of disuse with only brief periods of occupancy.
A pastor from the Carmel Baptist Church in Mosiertown held Sunday afternoon services in the building for one summer in the mid 1950's. The last known funeral in the church was in 1949. The church building no longer stands as it was torn down in 1964-65 on a bid of $125 from Elwood Heaster. The two story frame structure had a unchurch-like appearance. It was a rare church for these parts because of a balcony that encompassed three sides of the structure. The records never mentioned a belfry and no interior remodeling gave it the appearance that one ever existed. The church had 22 standard house windows, and in 1919, colored glass was put into these windows.
The old pine flooring had planks measuring up to 18 inches in width by 16 feet long and one and one-half inches thick. The stark high backed pine pews were still in good condition when the building was torn down. The balcony ran around the two sides and rear with stairways up both front ends. The two front doors on each side of the altar lead to the stairways and lower floor. Midway along both sides of the main floor were spaces where heating stoves stood. Stove pipes hung from brackets along the bottom edge of the balcony. They joined at the center rear where a single pipe went up through the ceiling to the chimney. The ceiling liner through which the pipe passed was made from a piece of sandstone through which a round hole had been cut.
In front of the church on the outside of the wrought iron cemetery fence stands a pipe hitching rail to which teams were tied. Both fence and rail are still in existence to this day.
The original graveyard was immediately behind the church (rows 1 to 13). Later on the site was expanded to include the north side of the church. The lots were created in 6 grave lots and 90 are in existence. Currently grave sites are being sold where the church stood. The first known burial was in 1826.
The cemetery is located on East Spring Road, north of the Hickernell Road, about two miles west of Route 98 and 3-4 miles east of route 18 from Springboro.
