Itinerant Mennonite ministers began holding services in the Buckhorn Schoolhouse in 1930 in Hardy County. During the 1930s and ’40s, young adults in the Virginia Conference taught Summer Bible School in the highlands. The congregation at Buckhorn grew through the Sunday school, summer Bible school, and revival meetings held in the schoolhouse.
The Buckhorn Mennonite Church building was built with volunteer labor and dedicated in 1949. John and Katie Shank provided leadership in the early years of the congregation. The Buckhorn congregation joined with the Cullers Run Church and Mt. Hermon to form the Mathias Mennonite Church in the 1970s.
The church building was located on Dove Hollow Road and the land adjoined the Lost River State Park. Today the renovated building exists as a vacation cabin. It can be rented through the AirBnB system.