Anderson Township’s District 5 school received its common name, Baker Hill, due to its location at the apex of a highland near the modern-day terminus of Gun Barn Road at Moss Island Road¹. 

The extant school, one of Madison County’s few remaining frame schoolhouses, closed some time prior to 1883, when the services of Bailey Chapel Church -theretofore held in the old Moss Island schoolhouse- moved in. In 1895, a purpose-built church was erected nearby².

After the congregation left, the old District 5 school was developed into a home³. It has been renovated and expanded. 

A later consolidated schoolhouse that took students from the old Baker Hill and Moss Island schools was erected south of the extant building in the 1880s. It no longer stands⁴.

Sources Cited
1 Davis, R. (1971, October 28). ‘Stink factory’ not far from Baker Hill School. The Anderson Daily Bulletin. p. 4.
2 Bailey Chapel Will Hold Dedicatory Rites Sunday (1954, September 8). The Anderson Daily Bulletin. p. 14.
3 Jackson, S. T. (2021, December 30). Madison County schoolhouses. email.
4 (See footnote 3).