The Mt. Zion Baptist Church was founded in 1888 in Connersville, Indiana. This short history covers the first 60 years of the church. All of the former pastors are named.
The publication includes photographs of some of the church members at the time the history was written in 1948, as well as many of their names.
Many parishioners are descended from Boone County, Kentucky enslaved families. The descendents migrated across the Ohio River into Indiana at the end of the nineteenth-century.