[2] Believed to be the oldest African-American church in the region, St. John Baptist was founded in 1868 by the Rev.

Basile Dorsey, a black preacher and landowner after whom the village of Dorseyville was named.

It is clapboarded with tall windows and mostly reflects the Greek Revival style of many rural churches of the era, though with a three-stage entrance tower at the center with Italianate details.

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