The First Presbyterian Church of Prattville, Alabama, was organized in 1846 by Pastor Wm. H. Mitchell as the successor to Millenium Hope Presbyterian, two miles east of town. Pastor Jas. K. Hazen, who served from 1861 to 1877, married Mary Ticknor, niece of town founder Daniel Pratt, and they led in establishing an orphanage that is now the Presbyterian Home for Children in Talladega. In 1867-68, poet Sidney Lanier, principal of Prattville Male and Female Academy, served as church organist. The original Greek Revival church on Bridge St. was relocated and now houses First Missionary Baptist. The 1895 Victorian church on this site burned in Jan. 1941, and the first worship services in the present modified Gothic building were held in Oct. of that year. It became a founding congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America in 1973. The original members on June 21, 1846, were Malcolm Smith, ruling member; Mary B. Smith; Frances Chapman; Euphemia Graham; William A. Graham, Sr.; Sarah Ann F. Graham; Eliza Graham; Edwin Fay, ruling elder; Harriet P. Fay; William W. Fay; Emily Smith; Elizabeth Burnett; and Maria Graham.