Mulberry Chapel Methodist Church, an African American church and the first in what is now Cherokee County, was most likely built between 1880 and 1890. It served the Whig Hill, Asbury, and Thickety communities in the part of Union County that became Cherokee County in 1897. Jack Littlejohn donated land for the chapel and cemetery. Regular services ended in the 1940s, but in 1953 Carl E. Littlejohn and others founded the Littlejohn Family Reunion, which holds annual services there every fall. Several members of the Littlejohn family are buried there, along with Samual Nuckles, who died circa 1900 and served as a state representative from Union County from 1868 to 1872.