Carver's Creek Methodist Church near Council in Bladen County, North Carolina, was built in 1859 as a frame Greek Revival-style church with a pedimented front portico and a two-story rear addition, measuring 40 feet across and 60 feet deep. The birth of Methodism in Bladen County is difficult to date exactly, but the church grounds were sold by Quakers to Methodists about 1797, placing the county's Methodist beginnings about 1795. The church standing on the property is at least the third building on the site, replacing a predecessor that burned in 1858 after standing from 1810. Before that, a Quaker Meeting House occupied the site from 1746 until it was replaced by the 1810 church, and Quakers may have had an even earlier building there, as they used the location for worship as early as 1743. Francis Asbury, one of two British lay ministers who remained in the American Colonies during the Revolutionary War, spent most of that conflict in hiding.