[2][3] It is the only structure remaining from Wheat, a rural Roane County community that was dissolved in 1942 when the United States government assumed ownership of the land for the Manhattan Project.

Founded in 1854 as a United Baptist congregation by 26 members of the Sulphur Springs Church of Christ,[4] it was established in Wheat in the northern part of Roane County.

It is a three-bay, rectangular plan brick building with wood cladding, a square bell tower, and a standing-seam metal roof.

[6] When Wheat was vacated by the federal government in 1942 as part of the Manhattan Project, the George Jones Memorial Baptist Church was abandoned with the rest of the community.

[9] George Jones Memorial Baptist Church was one of six Oak Ridge properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.