This church structure, one of the oldest in the Detroit Presbytery, was erected by a church building society organized on January 20, 1855. A fine example of the classic New England church, it was dedicated in June, 1856, as the house of worship for the First Presbyterian Church of Independence. The congregation had been organized in 1840 under the Plan of Union as the Church of Orion and Independence. Because of a small membership, the church was dissolved in 1932. When Sashabaw United Presbyterian Church was organized in 1946, this building became its house of worship, and the original steeple was restored and the building carefully preserved.