The Otto A.C. Church was built in 1925. The land was donated by Fredrick Jackson and Malinda Alice Epling and structure was built by donations from the community. The first trustees were Claire Starcher, Alma Nichols, Orphie McMillan, Ocie Ferrell, and Frances McMillan, all young women of the community. The church was destroyed by fire in 1981 and rebuilt in 1982.

Pine Grove Church is located approximately 2 miles from Amma, Geary District, Roane County.
The church can be reached via I-79 North from Charleston, exit #25. Turn right at end of exit ramp, turning right again at Pigeon Run Road. Proceed a short distance and then continue straight onto Pine Grove Road about 2 miles. You will pass Amma Church and Cemetery, cross Big Sandy Creek and pass by several houses. The church is on the left banks of Big Sandy Creek.

History records that Roane County was formed from areas of land "out of parts of Kanawha, Jackson, and Gilmer Counties," with the boundaries of the new county seat set out in the Act of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, which authorized the formation . No mention is made of taking any area from the then young County of Wirt, but the area comprising the Northern two-thirds of Spencer Magisterial District was cut off from Wirt County. At least our neighboring county to the North so claimed and the issue was not settled until 1915, when a joint commission from both Roane and Wirt Counties, plus a disinterested "umpire", agreed on the boundary line between the two counties.

BETHEL BAPTIST CHURCH: Located on Little Left Hand, Geary District, this church traces its beginning back to just after the close of the Civil War. The exact date of the organization was not preserved but the church is known to be closely associated with the first Baptist church organized in Geary District, in 1840, at the home of Charles Drake, on Sandy.

While West Virginia is this year celebrating her 100th birthday, Roane County has the distinction of already passing that milestone. The county of Roane was created by an act of the Virginia General Assembly on March 11, 1856, seven years before West Virginia became a state. But long before 1856, probably 1814, the first families were living in what is now Roane County. Parts of this county had been surveyed as early as 1785; had been visited by Jesse Hughes, the great scout and Indian fighter, as early a 1774, and a party of soldiers from Fort Pitt, (Pittsburgh) had passed through in 1765.