BENNETT CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH at Center City participated in the Hamilton County Baptist Association before Center City became part of Mills County. Bennett Creek Baptist Church was one of the founding member churches of the Hamilton County Baptist Association on 4 July, 1877. Bennett Creek was in Hamilton County until 1887.

One pastor at Bennett Creek was D. I. Haralson--1879, 1883, 1885; 1886. 

Church clerks at Bennet Creek included: 
C. C. Jones--1878--1879; 
G. W. Mullinax--1881; 
B. F. Hawkins, 1883-1885; and 
C. C. Hawkins, 1886. 

Messengers to the annual association meeting in 1886 were E. C. Kellogg, H. B. Ward, and J. P. Grundy.

In 1887 a strip of land from Sims Creek seven miles south of Center City to McGirk was transferred to Mills County by the Hamilton County of Commissioners in an effort to retain the town of Hamilton as the county seat of Hamilton County. On 7 September, 1889, Bennett Creek Baptist Church was given a letter of dismissal from Hamilton County Baptist Association to Mills County Baptist Association.