"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1) 

The Franklin Presbyterian Church had two beginnings.  The first was around 1820 when a Cumberland  Presbyterian congregation was organized in Franklin.  The congregation first shared a union meeting house with the Methodist Church, but in 1867 built its own church on south Main Street.  
 
The second beginning was in 1870 when a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. was organized.  

Both the Cumberland Presbyterian and the U. S. Presbyterian erected brick church structures about 1885.  The U.S. church sat at the corner of Main Street and Washington Street and was known as the “Main Street Church”.  The Cumberland church sat at the corner of College and Kentucky Streets.  In 1944 the two congregations merged to become the present Franklin Presbyterian Church.

The design of the College Street church was commissioned to the McDonald Brother’s architectural firm out of Louisville.  Other MacDonald Brother structures in Franklin are the Courthouse, the Goodnight House (present Chamber of Commerce), the old stone jail and the former Franklin Female College (present F.S.M.S. campus). This is no longer standing and was torn down in the last FSMS renovation.  Franklin had many more McDonald Bros.' buildings that have been torn down.  There are only four that are still standing.