Rev. James Law, father of Honorable Bonar Law, Prime Minister of Britain, preached in this church 1877. It was built to replace an earlier church constructed of logs that had been located near the present day cemetery. It is believed the old church was at that location since at least 1842.

The tall, gothic church steeple was struck by a wicked steak of lightning during an unusual summer storm on August 5, 1984. The storm seemed to come up out of nowhere, the lightning struck once, the storm quickly vanished into thin air, leaving the church smouldering in a puddle of ashes. 

St. Mark's Presbyterian Church was constructed in 1872 by local contractor James Brown on land donated by Edward Walker. It was patented after St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburg, Scotland with dimensions of 60' x 45', it was 50 feet from the main floor to the steeple, a total of 113 feet from the ground level. The interior consisted of 12 pillars with 6 on each side, the pillars were 16 feet high, separated by archways. The pulpit was a John Knox Pulpit, the Church was of Victorian Era.

In the year 1921, St. Mark's Presbyterian Church served a congregation of 118 families that filled the church to capacity but by 1981 the church community had been reduced to 17 households with 26 members who could not afford to keep the building open in the winter due to heating costs. Unfortunately, this great monument to the communities earliest settlers from Scotland would not survive what can only be described as a freak of nature.