The Green River Association began on June 18, 1800. It divided in 1831 over the issue of Campbellism; the new organization, also with the name Green River Association, was composed of those most stridently opposed to the theology of Alexander Campbell. Cf. History of Baptists in Kentucky / Frank M. Masters, p. 70, 221. On the cover of its minutes (1875), the dissident group calls itself the "Original Green River Association."