The congregation was organized in 1834 by Caleb Ives, a pioneer missionary, and was admitted to parish status in 1838.

The wooden Gothic Revival structure was built in 1859 on a Southern plantation to the designs of Richard Upjohn.

[2] He ran afoul of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South after he built a saloon from the ruins of his plantation house.

[2] As a result, he decided to convert the congregation to an Episcopal church and move the building across the Black Warrior River to its present location in 1878.

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