In the late 1770’s, a large caravan of Virginians, including a Methodist preacher, traveling south in search of a new home, settled in this neighborhood. Among them were the Adams, Alexander, Banks, Cunningham, Fleming, Anderson, Gaines, Johnson, Teasley, Tyner, Stower, and Brown families. They immediately built a place of worship with loopholes for defense against Indians. In this Meeting House, Bishop Francis Asbury, leader of early American Methodism, preached from time to time, and his remark, “This is indeed cold water,” after drinking from the nearby spring gave the church its name. The second house of worship was built of lumber sawed on Coldwater Creek by Ralph Gaines, and the three Adams brothers, Hiram, James, and Lawrence, joined him in erecting the building. After that church was destroyed by fire in 1883, it was replaced by an exceptionally beautiful rural church. The fourth building, started in 1947, was dedicated August 29, 1947 by Reverend Horace Smith, District Superintendent. Of ten memorial windows in this church, two are dedicated to Howell Gaines Adams and Nick Drewry Carpenter, who fell in battle in World War Two.