Near this site, the Consolation Universalist Church was organized by a traveling preacher, Wm. Lowe, in the home of James E. Clark in May, 1819. It was the first Universalist Church organized west of the Allegheny Mountains. Early ministers were L. T. Brasher, J. E. McCord, D. M. Wooldridge, W. E. McCord, Joab Clark, and L. M. Pope.