In the 1820’s, before the Creek Indian Cession, Scot immigrants from Richmond County, North Carolina, settled this area of west Barbour County. Few regions outside Scotland had a larger proportion of people bearing the names of the great Highland clans. Between 1823-1960, within a five mile radius of Pea River Church, Highlanders bearing the names Baxter, Currie, McCall, McDonald, McEachern, McInnis, McKay, McKinnon, McLean, McLendon, McLeod, McNeal, and McRae lived here, and these families, serving the Lord, earned for the area the name “Little Scotland.” In 1823, immigrants from Richmond County, North Carolina, established Pea River Presbyterian Church with fifteen members, eleven unnamed women and four men: Gilbert McEachern, Daniel Currie, Alex McRae, and Farquhuar McRae. Daniel Curie was chosen first clerk of session, and Gilbert McEachern and Farquhuar McRae were chosen ruling elders. Pea River became the mother church to the Clio, Louisville, and Union in Dale County Presbyterian churches.