Mountville United Methodist Church was organized in 1828 under the leadership of the Reverend John Hunter, a Methodist circuit rider, and Thomas Evans near Camp Viola, serving pioneers settled along the Troup and Meriwether County line. In the fall of 1828, a log cabin church building was raised in Meriwether County about a mile from Mountville on the Keith Road, and in its earliest years it was called Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1854, Mount Pleasant Methodist Episcopal Church, South, became part of the Greenville Circuit. From the beginning, class leaders held a Sabbath School, and John N. Carleton organized the first Sunday School in 1866. After the war between the States, the church was moved to a more accessible location, and in 1871 Doctor Joseph Bradfield gave a five-acre tract, now the Mountville Cemetery, for a building site; the church was then changed from the Greenville Circuit to the Hogansville Circuit and later, in 1893, became part of the Mountville Circuit. In 1908, the church was moved from the hill to its present site on land purchased from Olin Carleton, where a white frame church building in modified English Gothic style was built and later a parsonage was added. The church's name was changed to Mountville Methodist Church in 1939. In 1963, Beuna Owens Day was observed and an electric organ was purchased in honor of Mrs. Beuna Owens for her more than 80 years as an active and dedicated member. On Homecoming, October 10, 1965, ten stained glass memorial windows were installed in the sanctuary. For nearly two centuries, the church has provided spiritual leadership, service, and Christian influence in the Mountville community, the oldest settlement and highest point in Troup County.