As settlers began arriving in this area around 1812, residents made religious services a priority, holding brush arbor meetings every summer before building a log structure along the creek that marked the beginning of the Methodist Church. Farrah Newberry, editor of the Southern Standard, said on September 22, 1912, that Mrs. Ephraim (Elviria Huckleberry Holder) Parks, age 79, joined the Hollywood Methodist Church in 1854, when it was located about 3/4 mile from here, and that the log structure served as both church and school. In 1855, Ira and Margaret Bridges donated land for a church nearer the military road, and a log structure was built there the following year at the present site, with trustees J.M. Moore, Dudley Spence, William J. Spence, W.B. Moore, William P. Pullen, Lewis Thomas, and H.W. Balch. Another church was built on the site in 1904. In 1925, fire destroyed the church and most of the town, but within three months the present church was built through fundraising led by Charlie Etchieson, Urb Bridges, and J.C. McAnally. At its dedication on June 1, 1925, a writer for the Siftings Herald called the new building "One of the finest rural church edifices in the county," and 500 people attended the all-day celebration. Over the years, several improvements were made, including the fellowship hall in 2001 and a steeple in 2005. The bell hanging in the rock tower was purchased by John D. Hart in 1894 for Hartsville Methodist Episcopal Church on Walnut Street, which was destroyed by fire in the 1940s. Dora Hart Meador, John D. Hart's daughter and a member of Hollywood Church, gave the bell to Hollywood, but after the wooden structure holding it deteriorated in the 1950s, the bell was returned to John D. Hart's granddaughter, Frances Meador Elliott. The bell was returned to Hollywood in 2008 and now hangs in a rock structure given in memory of Christi Wingfield Hill and Bonnie Shane. Hollywood Church was active from the early 1800s until 2020.