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  Warm, welcoming, and historic United Methodist Church. Here is a little history from an article in the Rome News Tribune.
  
  Five families with the names Aycock, Davenport, Lister, Rush and Watters were among those who settled the area. The church first known as Rush Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church soon followed.
  
  Aspects of the church’s early years remain shrouded. Burnes knows there were two buildings at the site in the mid-1800s — a log-cabin church and the “academy.” The exact relationship between the two buildings is unknown, though tradition states the church used the academy to perform its works.
  
  The log-cabin church gave way to a frame structure about 1845 or 1850. An addition to the church was made in 1861, though the academy burned down about the same time and was not rebuilt.
  
  Decades passed, and the congregation realized the church needed repairs. Instead of repairing, they built a new structure in 1910. Since then its members have built a parsonage in the 1960s, an annex in 1996 and a new playground several years later.
  
  The church’s restoration was completed last year.
  
  “It’s a small church, but it has a very active ministry,” Burnes said. “We have a very active congregation. We have a lot of children. It’s a place you feel at home.”
  
  

  Added September 01, 2016 by Theresa Weaver