McLemoresville was settled in early 1800. In 1820 missionaries Rev. Benjamin Peeples and Rev. Lewis Garrett met at the Public Land Office to divide their territory. By 1859 a church was organized. From 1886, when the northern Methodist Episcopal Church founded McLemoresville Collegiate Institute, until it closed in 1932, the lives of the church and school were inseparable. Part of the school was dedicated for worship and used by the church until the present building was erected in 1926. Before unification in 1939, this church was a vital force in the Central Tenn. Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.