Pisgah United Methodist Church

Near here in 1793, the Rev. John Kobler preached the first sermon by a Methodist in what is now Tazewell County. As a result, a new congregation was formed with nine White and two enslaved Black members. The church building, constructed across the Clinch River just northwest of here on land donated by Thomas Peery, was the first church of any denomination in the county. The construction of the Clinch Valley Railroad between 1887 and 1889 necessitated the relocation of the church to its present site, just north of here. Pisgah is the mother church of numerous Tazewell County congregations and ministers.