Historic Preservation

After Upper Carter's Run Baptist Church ceased to exist, about 1809, the building became, primarily, Salem Academy, lovingly called "the Old Stone Academy" by the many men and women who received their education there. A private school, with funds from the state to educate the "paupers," it became a public school in 1871 and served as such until 1909 when a new school was built for the community.

Until 1882, when the last church established in Marshall had erected a sanctuary, it was a "union" meeting house - open to any denomination represented by a traveling minister. Within its walls were established the present Episcopal Church, the Methodist Church and the Baptist 

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Church (although the Baptist church members present in 1882 had long forgotten that the building had been erected as a Baptist meeting house) and records show that the Salem Baptist Church, the Afro-American Baptist congregation at Marshall, used the facility for the organization of their church.