PISGAH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Information take from Baird’s 1909 History of Clark County, Indiana The old Pisgah Presbyterian church on Camp creek, three miles east of New Washington, was organized on the 27th day of February, 1816, at the house of Alexander Walker by the Rev. James McGready, a missionary under the direction of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian church. The Pisgah church was supplied by missionaries until the year 1819, when the members of the Pisgah church with the Rev. Samuel Shanon presiding, elected the Rev. John M. Dickey pastor, and appointed two of the elders to confer with the New Lexington church in preparing a call. This call was laid before the Louisville Presbytery of Kentucky in April by Mr. Walker and accepted by Rev. John M. Dickey, who was a regularly installed pastor of the two churches on the first Saturday of August, 1819, at Lexington, Scott county, Indiana. Rev. Isaac Reed preaching the installation sermon, Rev. David C. Banks presiding and giving the charge. J. M. Dickey settled in the bounds of New Lexington church and continued there until January, 1827. About the year 1837 the Presbyterian Church divided, forming two separate congregations known as the Pisgah church, New School, and the New Washington church, Old School. The new school congregation retained the old church building, the old school going to New Washington. The early members of the Pisgah church were true, devoted Christian men, who were guided by a conscientious regard for law and justice. Among these early members were Alexander Walker, John Henderson and John Matthews, with their wives and families. The early life of the church was prosperous, but it received a set-back after the controversy arose which divided it into two parts and Presbyterianism has never been very strong in that part of the county since.