The Methodist Church building entered into the early history of
Jefferson. In the early days a private school was taught in the
basement. Some existing records of the Jefferson Baptist Church point
out that the preaching services of the Baptist were held “in the
Methodist Church.”
Possibly in the years of prosperity of the ’50’s a fine brick building
is revealed in the remarkable “bird’s-eye-view” picture of Jefferson
which is preserved in the Carnegie Library. It took its place with the
magnificent structures which had been erected by the Presbyterians and
Baptists in this same period—the “fair fifties”. The Methodist building
was condemned some fifty years ago, razed and a new wooden structure
built, using a part of the original foundation of the brick building.
That wooden building is the existing Methodist Church of today. Thus
Jefferson Methodism has probably seen three buildings in its over 90
years of history.