Gladewater Baptist Church celebrates 150 years, new pastor

One hundred fifty years ago, on Christmas Day, a wagon train arrived 9 miles north of Mount Pleasant on Harts Bluff Road from Jefferson County, Alabama. Part of the settlers started having prayer services under a large tree that stood on the hill overlooking the spring. With a small beginning, Spring Hill Baptist Church was formed. Ten years later, the church moved to a little schoolhouse to the…