First United Methodist Church

When Hiram Bradford settled in Brownsville in 1824, he found Reuben Alphin preaching there. Methodists built Brownsville's first church in 1832 west of the square. A second church was built on the present site in 1848, and a third was built there in 1869 but burned. The present sanctuary was completed in 1899. Eight sessions of the Annual Conference were held there beginning in 1852. The Conference's first Woman's Missionary Society was begun there on Aug. 8, 1878, by Mrs. S. W. Moore. In 1937, the Conference voted there, 179-92, for the unification of three Methodist bodies. Two missionaries, Molly Hood and Emma Kerr, came from this church.

Brownsville, Tennessee · United States