Chinn's Chapel Methodist Church began in 1846 as a nondenominational congregation organized by pioneer settlers of the Peters Colony. Itinerant preachers held services in a log church and school building about one quarter mile northwest of the present site on 10 acres called Antioch, donated for church and cemetery purposes by North Carolina immigrants Mary Stowe Chinn (1808-1871) and Elisha Chinn (1802-1876). In 1872 the church was admitted to the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, as Chinn's Chapel Methodist Church, and Sunday school classes began that year. In 1877 the church purchased 4 acres at this site of freshwater springs and early camp meetings, where a sanctuary was erected and a tabernacle built for summer revivals. From 1884 to 1921, the property also included a combination Woodmen of the World lodge hall and public school. Chinn's Chapel served as the main gathering place for the area. Although membership declined sharply after World War II, the church endured. Through denominational merger it became Chinn's Chapel United Methodist Church in 1968, local efforts to revive the institution began in the late 1980s, an active membership was reestablished, and the building was renovated in 1996.