Daniel Pratt, a native of New Hampshire, became an industrialist, statesman, and philanthropist in Alabama and encouraged the development of the Methodist community in Prattville. As the town grew, he contributed land and money to build schools and churches, taught a class in the Union Sunday School that all citizens could attend until shortly before his death, and died on May 13, 1873. His tombstone bore the words, "Blessed are the dead who die in the lord, for they rest from their labors and their works do follow them," and at his funeral it was said that he had completed all his goals. Though he died before the present church building was conceived, he left a legacy that inspired Methodism to grow. In 1843, Prattville became a regular appointment on the Washington Circuit of the Alabama Conference, and the congregation met in a frame building provided by Daniel Pratt while Reverend William Jeremiah Sassnett served the circuit. In 1853, Pratt gave a new brick building near the corner of Maple and Bridge Streets. By 1911, the congregation had grown to 596 members and voted to build a new sanctuary on this site. Groundbreaking took place on May 4, 1912, a marble cornerstone was laid in July, and the first service was held on April 6, 1913, when Dr. W.P. Dickinson preached from Psalm 122:1, "I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord." Additional buildings were added in 1958, 1989, and 2002, one hundred years of service at this location were celebrated in 2013, and the formation of Trinity UMC was sponsored in 1971.