Goucher Creek Church is situated in Spartanburg County, SC, about eight miles southwesterly from Gaffney City on the air-line railroad and about sixteen miles nearly east of Spartanburg village. This ancient church was formerly a member of the Bethel Association and was dismissed to become a constituent member of the Broad River Association when formed in the year 1800. The historians of the Association have heretofore failed to give us the date of the constitution of this church, but according to information found and transmitted from reliable sources it was probably organized in the year 1770, and is the fourth in point of age of the original Broad River body. Friendship, Green's Creek (now of Green River Association) and Boiling Spring (extinct) being the oldest in the order of their names. The Goucher Creek Church does not appear to have had a regular pastor until 1784 when Elder Joshua Richards was engaged and who continued until 1811, after which the church was destitute of a regular supply until 1820, when Hugh Moore, an ordained minister and member of Goucher Creek became her pastor and in an irregular manner contined so for about two years, when about this he became involved in legal difficulties and was deposed from the ministry.

In 1829, Elder H McDougal became pastor and in '31 Elder Joshua Richards was again chosen til '34, Elder J Bridgewaters then served until '38, Elder D Scruggs from then til '42, Elder F W Littlejohn til '47, Elder T Dixon in '48, Elder T W Littlejohn again served until '55, Elder B Bonner was then chosen til '63, when Elder T W Littljohn again served in '64, Elder B Bonner again served til '71, Elder J G Carter then served until '73 when Elder B Bonner again served until '79, Elder T J Taylor was then elected to the pastorate and is serving in '82.

The church has a membership of 198, is wealthy, refined, kind and courteous towards strangers, but is not united in the Minutes of the Association with a report of a Sunday School, or of contributions to missions or other benevolent objects. Surely her Lord's money is not laid away in a napkin, if so, it is hoped that it will be immediately put into hands of the exchangers, so that by the time of his coming may receive his own usury.

The following are the present corps of deacons, W P Brown, B F Bonner, M W Goforth, W Sam Lipscomb, M A Littlejohn. B F Bonner, clerk.