Pioneer settler Joseph Wren donated five acres of land at this site in 1875 for use as a community cemetery, and the church, which had been meeting in a log building 2 miles northeast, moved here later that same year. Mattie Brookshire suggested the name "New Hope." The first interment in the cemetery was an infant girl, Mary Sudduth, who died in 1876. A schoolhouse used until the 1920s stood on land now included in the burial grounds, and an annual homecoming is held here each May.