Brittain Presbyterian Church was organized as “Little Britain Presbyterian Church” in August 1768, making it the earliest church of any denomination established west of the Catawba River in North Carolina, and it remains an active congregation to this day. Following the Revolutionary War, its name was changed to “Brittain” so that it would no longer be associated with England. Its cemetery became the burial place of sixteen Revolutionary War soldiers, beginning with Lt. Thomas McCulloch, a Revolutionary War hero who, after returning mortally wounded from the Battle of Kings Mountain, was brought to Alexander McGaughey’s Fort adjacent to the church property and died on October 12, 1780.