Francis Asbury founded the Mt. Bethel Methodist Episcopal Church in an old log church on this site on Friday May 10, 1811. On Thursday May 9, 1811, Bishop Asbury stayed at Halls Mill, now Asbury, with Col. William McCullough and preached there in the barn. On Friday May 10, 1811, he came to Mt. Bethel and stayed with James Egbert Esq., whose home was directly across the street; James and Rachel Egbert are buried in this cemetery. Methodist meetings were held in the Egbert home as early as 1800, and when Bishop Asbury visited in 1809 he renamed the neighborhood Mt. Bethel; formerly it had been called Egberts. Bethel is a Hebrew word meaning The House of God. On Saturday May 12, 1811, Bishop Asbury traveled to Cumminstown, also known as Pequest, now Vienna, where he stayed with Phillip Cummins and preached in their kitchen. In 1844 James Egbert erected the present Mt. Bethel Church, incorporating the pulpit platform from the old log church. The entire property was entered onto the N.J. Register of Historic Places in 1979 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.