Many of the Cornish miners, storekeepers, and mining captains who immigrated to this area during the Copper Country mining boom from 1842 to 1860 were Anglicans. On July 17, 1860, the Reverend Samuel A. McCoskry, Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, met with nine Houghton and Hancock businessmen to establish a parish. The group held its first public worship services on September 15, 1860. At its first vestry meeting on July 13, 1861, the name Trinity Church was adopted. The present Jacobsville sandstone church was completed in 1910 on the site of an earlier wooden church, and its interior design was influenced by the Oxford Movement. The sanctuary's wood carvings were made by Aloysius Lang of Oberammergau.