We can not be exact concerning the date of the first Dropping Lick Church.  It is thought that it was in 1792.  The first building was a structure on unclaimed land that is now known as the "Old Graveyard" and was used for seventeen years.

Then the Van Sweringen family patterned a track of land, which included the church site.  On February 20, 1809, John White, Richard Ramsey, Joseph Wiseman, Isaac Wiseman and Bartholomew Ramsey bought an acre from Van Swearingen and his wife Polly for a church and schoolhouse site.

A larger and better church of hewed logs was erected.  The schoolhouse was never built but the church was used in its stead for subscription schools up to the Civil War.  On formation of West Virginia as a state, free school was taught in the church until the building of the schoolhouse across the road from the church.

Dropping Lick United Methodist Church is located on the headwaters of Mann's Branch, a small tributary of Dropping Lick Creek.  When the Civil War began the Methodists split into two branches.  There was considerable strife in the membership of the Dropping Lick Church which was almost evenly divided between secessionist and union.  Even the Wiseman and Morgan families were divided on this question.  The core of the membership was made up of the descendants of the original Scotch immigrants, the Ramsey's, Rice's, White's, Sprowl's, Miller's, and Bostic's.

Anderson Raines, who bought the Van Swearingen place, and William Ballard, who settled just above and adjoining the original Scott settlement, joined with the determined Scotch and out-voted the secessionists.  The Dropping Lick Church repudiated slavery and disunion in a very narrow margin.

In 1887 the present frame building was erected.  A trust deed was recorded on June 13, 1887 by John C. Ballard, Anderson Raines, Joseph Laudermilk and Henry S. Ballard, trustees of Dropping Lick to the board of Church Extension for $200.00 to build a house of worship.