Historic Associate Reformed Church and Cemetery

Hopewell Church is a single-story brick meeting house built in 1825 on rolling land above the East Fork of Four Mile Creek, about a mile northwest of Morning Sun in Preble County, Ohio. It sits with an 8.7-acre cemetery, a dry-laid limestone fence, a spring enclosure and a 1930s privy. The congregation began in 1808 with Scots-Irish settlers from Kentucky and South Carolina who left in opposition to slavery, and it grew into one of the largest congregations west of Pittsburgh. It later sponsored daughter churches in Fairhaven, Oxford, College Corner and Morning Sun. The building shows the plain, symmetrical style of early meeting houses, with twelve-over-twelve windows, Flemish bond brick on the east wall, twin entrances in the south gable end and a hewn timber roof truss. The cemetery holds early carved monuments, many by stonecutter Oscar M. Pay. The church still holds monthly services.