When the Jackson Purchase was opened to settlement in 1818, one of Asbury's circuit riders, John Manley, located and took up land near here. He organized Manley's Chapel, probably the first church in the Purchase area, in 1821. Tennessee Conference missionary Benjamin Peeples was the first pastor. The first two sanctuaries were log. The third, built in 1857, was log/weatherboard. Almost inaccessible by auto, Manley's Chapel nearly died in the early 1930's. It was dismantled and moved to the present location. In 1958, Bishop W.T. Watkins dedicated a new brick structure which was built by church families.