Lebanon Baptist Church, 1859
        The land for the church was given by John Lee and his slaves helped build the original building (which is now gone).  In its early days, the church served as a community meeting house with sermons from different denominations each week.  "Frame, remodeled and joined to church built 1957-1958.  In use as educational building.  Church [congregation] organized, 1833, as members of Jefferson County Baptist Association."¹

1. Missouri Historic Sites Catalogue; edited by Dorothy J. Caldwell; published by the State Historical Society of Missouri; Columbia, MO; 1963