Harkey’s Chapel United Methodist Church began as an original log house of worship built in St. Clair County near Broken Arrow Creek, six miles from the Coosa River. It was named Harkey’s Chapel for its first minister, the Rev. David Harkey of the Cahawba Circuit. The present church was built in 1903-04 by A. I. Abels with community helpers, preserved by members of Harkey’s Chapel United Methodist Church, and entered in the Alabama Register of Historic Places in 1978.