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The church was first established in 1851.  The Methodist Protestants and the Methodists Episcopals shared the early church until 1856. A church was built in the present church's location in 1893.  The present church building was built in 1906.
Presbyterianism began in the Tygarts Valley in what is now the town of Beverly in 1753.  The church was first organized as an independent church in 1820.  In 1853 the first Presbyterian Church was built in Beverly.
In 1921 Reverend Ellsworth S. Harman was elected minister of the Harman Church of the Brethren and he was the pastor a number of years.  He is grandson of the original Pastor, Rev. Asa Harmon who was elected in 1859 and for whom the town is named.
The community members first petitioned for their own separate church from the Tygarts Valley Presbyterian Church in 1841.  The church met in a union building which was built in 1851 until the present church building was dedicated in 1900.