This Methodist congregation was originally known as Turkey Creek Church, and tradition holds that its members first worshipped under a brush arbor. They formally organized by the 1870s, when the church was part of the Orangeburg District of the Methodist Episcopal (M. E.) denomination. In 1887, nine church trustees acquired two acres at this site along “the public road to Indiantown Church” and constructed a wood frame church, likely using trees harvested from the purchased land. By the early 20th century, the congregation had changed its name to Mt. Seal Methodist Church.