1864–1880
In the 1860s, the First Presbyterian Church was organized in Okemos. Meeting in the local school under the leadership of the Rev. C.S. Armstrong, Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lansing, the Presbyterian Church in Okemos was established in 1864. In 1865, construction of a church building was begun, total cost $2,300. Elaine Davis, active in Friends or Historic Meridian, gave information as to the church’s location: one half block off Okemos Road (then State Road) and one block south of the Methodist Church. Dedication was in November 1868. Unfortunately, in April 1879, ”the society numbered only about ten members, and was not in a flourishing condition.”