The Yorktown Methodist Episcopal Church built their first church in January 1875. The churches were supported by ministers who rode a circuit to minister to the people. The earliest churches in Yorktown met in homes and the school house.
Just 23 years after building the first church, they had outgrown it. The old church was moved to another site and another church built in the same location on the corner of High and Walnut Streets. These boys pose sometime after 1898 in front of the brick structure. The church had a fire in 1950 The structure is still in use in 2021 by the Baptist Church.
