[2] This first service was held at the four-room Columbia Academy schoolhouse with the Reverend George Ross as pastor, four miles (6 km) northwest of the present site.

[2] Services were held at the academy until a permanent site for construction of a house of worship could be located by the congregation.

"[2] The twelve original Scottish pioneers were: Mr. and Mrs. William Chalmers and their 11 children, their youngest Catherine was the first buried there.

[4] His design included buttresses, stained glass windows, a steep roof, and the signature eight-sided steeple.

[2] In 1905, the church was expanded when an annex was built onto the back of the building, adding additional classrooms for Sunday school.

[2] Then in 1940 the annex was expanded and a half-basement added, followed by a second addition in 1955 that included the first indoor restrooms at the church.

[2] Meek died on June 20, 1875, and was originally buried at his homestead, located near a historic marker dedicated to him along the Sunset Highway.

[2] The cemetery also contains a cairn added in 1985 as a memorial to ancestors in Scotland who were massacred at Glen Coe in 1692.