Nearly 100 years ago a resident of Tanque Verde named Howard Smith donated the land for both a school and church within the community. In the late 1930s, on the four acres of donated land, local homesteaders and residents began the church construction. The church exterior was to be constructed with rocks trucked from the nearby Milagrosa Canyon. Tanque Verde Baptist Church, with nearly 150 parishioners, was completed and dedicated in 1939. A little over a decade later work would begin on a parsonage to the east of the church. Eventually, in 1997, a paved parking lot would be added. And now many years later it still stands today, another congregation meeting at the rock church, Tanque Verde Bible Church.