Constituted in June 1788, with Wm. Hickman its founder and first pastor. Land obtained and frame meeting house built, 1795, near present brick church, constructed 1945. A Virginian, Hickman visited Ky., 1776, and began preaching; returned to Ky. in 1784. Minister to Forks of Elkhorn almost 40 yrs. Reinterred Frankfort Cem., 1916.