In 1827, evangelist Walter Scott came to Canfield and visited Baptist families living on Palmyra Road and near Dean Hill. A follower of Alexander Campbell, Scott preached sermons that persuaded some to establish a new congregation in the Disciple faith. After first meeting in members' homes, the congregation erected a framed meeting house about 1830 on land bought from William and Orsemus Dean, across from William Dean's brick residence. A burial ground was provided there, with existing grave markers dating to 1837. Veterans from all the wars of the nation are buried in the cemetery, including Benjamin Dean of the 105th Ohio Infantry Regiment, who died from wounds suffered in the 1863 Battle of Murfreesboro in Tennessee. On the crest of Dean Hill, regarded by some as one of the Western Reserve's most beautiful locations, the congregation grew rapidly and continued to meet regularly until 1865. By 1848, however, members living in the Village of Canfield had withdrawn to form a second Disciple Church near the south end of the Village Green, and the diminished Dean Hill congregation was eventually absorbed by Disciple churches in Canfield and North Jackson. The old frame church remained a conspicuous landmark until it was razed in the late 1880s, and today only the carriage step stone remains at the church location while Dean Hill Cemetery continues to serve descendants of its founders and the Canfield community.