If I'm following a somewhat convoluted history of this church correctly, this is the fourth church, three of them Baptist, which have stood on this site. Its history goes back to about 1795, when Henry Steeves began to preach to the locals. The First Hillsborough Baptist Church was organized in 1822, possibly in a nearby barn on the 6th of October of that year. There was already a church on the site, a nondenominational church built in 1798, which was removed sometime after that, to become a Methodist church, and the first Baptist church built on the spot. In time this building was removed and a second, larger church erected on the spot.
In 1910 this church, along with the parsonage, burned, to be replaced over the next two years. The present church, then, would have been completed by 1912, as was the parsonage.
A large building, the church has a good sized bell tower in the centre of the front elevation which serves as the entrance and another, smaller round tower at the northwest corner. Given that it is clad in wood shingles, we assume that the round tower is original to the 1912 building. At the southwest corner of the building stands a third tower, this one with a flat roof, crenelations on all four sides and more entrance doors at the bottom.
We can't say for certain, but it appears that, with the construction of the large, new Hillsborough Baptist Church on Salem Road nearby, this church may be, temporarily at least, not holding services.
Immediately south of the church is the
Hillsborough Pioneer Cemetery, now a municipal heritage site. It was established, according to Historic Places Canada, in about 1700, which would make it the first cemetery in Hillsborough. The first families to arrive in the area, all Acadian families, chose this hilltop site for their burial ground. The cemetery was used until the early twentieth century.