Pleasant Grove Community Church and Cemetery

It was founded in 1873, is a historic church building at 56971 170th Street in Ames, Iowa. It is also known as Methodist Episcopal Church of Milford Township among the locals.
Pleasant Grove Community Church is a non-denominational church located in Milford Township of Story County, northeast of Ames.

Church services were held as early as 1855 in the little red brick schoolhouse, no longer standing, and east of the churchyard.

It was decided that a church building should be constructed, and fifty community families agreed to take on the task. The list of founding families includes many well-known Story County pioneer names: Sowers, Soper, Arrasmith, Hughes, Kooser, Kegley, Randau and others.

The land for the church building site had been deeded by T. R. Hughes and his wife Eleanor to the trustees of the church for $25.00. The deed was recorded in December of 1877.

The site chosen for the church was outstanding for the natural beauty of the surrounding woods.