Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church
Morgantown, Kentucky

A veteran of the Revolutionary War, Thomas Carson, donated the land for the Little Muddy Cumberland Presbyterian Church, school, and cemetery along the Green River in Butler County, Kentucky, about eight miles south of Morgantown. Carson had received a land grant in the district as compensation for his service, and his son-in-law, Alexander Chapman, conducted camp meetings there as early as 1805. Chapman was one of the frontier revivalists of Cumberland Presbytery, Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., who were targeted by the Synod of Kentucky as being insufficiently educated and "erroneous" in doctrine. He book the Little Muddy Creek church into the Cumberland Presbyterian Church when that denomination was organized in 1810.

About 1835 the congregation replaced the first log structure with a red brick building. They used that meeting house as both a church and a school until 1860, when the current wood frame church was built nearby. The brick building continued to house the Little Muddy Academy until 1891, and was used as a public school until 1956. When it was returned by the local school district to the congregation, the church converted the building into a community center. The cemetery, opened in 1829, contains the remains of several ministers of the church.

Entry No. 280
American Presbyterian/Reformed Historical Sites Registry

[Source: The Journal of Presbyterian History, Volume 81, Number 3, Fall 2003, page 216]