Mississippi’s first Methodist circuit rider, Tobias Gibson, established this congregation around 1800, and the earliest gravestones in the picturesque cemetery date to 1819. The simple front-gabled brick building features a frame two-stage tower (reconstructed c. 1900 after a storm). Federal details such as the round fanlight in the front wall and small-paned thirty-six-over-thirty windows combine with Greek Revival single-panel doors. The rectangular meeting house form with symmetrically spaced twin entrances was common in Protestant churches through the nineteenth century, probably originating in congregations with gender-segregated seating. The church testifies to a thriving antebellum agricultural community, now a ghost town that is interpreted by the National Park Service as a wayside stop on the Natchez Trace Parkway.