[1] They first met in a small school house on Raleigh Road.

[2] In 1861, they purchased the current plot of land and built a small pine wood church that sat two hundred people.

[1] The church was damaged during Sherman's March to the Sea during the American Civil War.

[1] The building was temporarily used as a military hospital for wounded soldiers and, after the war, was used a women's seminiary.

A group of congregants estalished a new church on Main Street in the West End neighborhood.