The Rev. Gwinn in 1808 called his area the Flint Circuit. It started on the Northeast at McMinnville, Tennessee and extended Southwest to what is Hobbs Island in the Tennessee River. He came to this area in October and immediately started organizing Methodist societies, six in all. Ford's Chapel (his first stop because it was a day's horseback ride from his home), State Line, Blue Springs, Jordan's Camp Ground, Hunt's Spring (now Huntsville First Methodist) and Lebanon (now Latham Memorial, Farley). The records only mention four or five months of work on the circuit. It is accepted as a fact that Richard and Betsy Ford became good friends of Rev. Gwinn and that their home just west of this spot became a Methodist Society meeting place, and that he used it as headquarters when he came from Nashville to his circuit. The records show that he had a wife and young family in Nashville, which may explain his short working time of four or five months.