By appointment of Tuscaloosa Presbytery, on November 18, 1848, Rev. J. L. Kirkpatrick and Rev. C. A. Stillman organized a Presbyterian church at Pleasant Ridge, Alabama, with thirteen charter members. Services were first held in a home near the site of the present church. The first pastor, Rev. J. P. McMullen, served from 1855 until he was killed while serving the Confederacy at Resaca, Ga., in 1864. The church building was erected in 1859 and has served those who worshipped there through the years.