In 1852, Reverend Samuel Hagerman from Huntersville organized an Ada Methodist "class" that met in the old schoolhouse at the corner of Main and Montford streets. When the Presbyterians built the first church in Ada in 1861, the Methodists joined them for worship for about five years. In 1866 the Methodists built their own church, a two-story wooden structure on the corner of Gilbert Street and...