This is Zion Methodist Episcopal Church, which is the first establishment used by the society for worship. Prior to the year 1800, the society worshiped in private family homes. In 1789, Joseph Cromwell, preacher in charge of the Trenton circuit, introduced Methodism at Hornerstown. Job Horner soon established meetings at his home, Job Horner eventually gave an acre of ground to the society for the church and for grave yard purposes. No deed was given until thirty-eight years later when the property of the donor had passed into other hands. Construction began on the first church in the fall of 1800 and finished the following spring. Cracks between boards were filled in with mud and the ceiling was boarded. There were two doors on the building, 5 windows, and a pulpit. Bishop Asbury, the first American Bishop who preached the “Word of Life” from the pulpit.
In 1847, the church was found to be too small to accommodate the congregation, it was enlarged to its present size. On April 29, 1806 Francis Asbury, then an itinerant missionary from England, who later became the first Bishop of the Methodist Societies in the New World, preached at the Old Zion Church. He recorded the visit in his journal with: “I preached at Mount Zion in the woods, near a little town called Egypt.”