This accounts for our still close proximity to our sister church, Pleasant Hill, which belonged to the M. E. Church. In 1968, the Methodist Church united with the Evangelical United Brethren Church, and we all became a part of the now United Methodist Church. The church, a lovely stone building, and the comfortable Parsonage, constructed of the same materials, stands next to the church. Both church and parsonage are located in a beautiful grove of majestic oak trees that constitutes one of the loveliest scenes for a church and parsonage in Holston Conference. The church cemetery is located across the road from the church and parsonage.
Specific dates vary as to the exact founding of the church.
Thus, making 1976, our Sesquicentennial Year, and America's bicentennial. The church owes her origin to the desire of one man to build a church to meet the spiritual needs of his wife. John Wilkinson was the Attorney-General, and one of the first commissioners of the City of Maryville. General Wilkinson, like most of the Scots-Irish who settled the area, was a Presbyterian. However, Mrs. Wilkinson was a Methodist who longed to worship in a Methodist Church.