Salem Church was organized second Sunday in September 1862. The first location is the present location of Beech Creek Cemetery just a few miles on the Old Shreveport Hiway from Atlanta.

There were three different locations of the Salem School. The first was about one mile west of Bloomburg and one half mile east of the present location of Salem Church.

The second location one mile northwest of Bloomburg. The third location was where the Salem Church parsonage now stands.