Blue Springs Lutheran Church may have been established as early as 1806, but the formal organizational date of the church was September 24, 1811, when the church was received into the North Carolina Synod. The pastor at that time was the Rev. Charles Zacharius Schmidt, who had been the organizer (Davis, W.C., "East Tennessee Lutheranism Began in 1700s," 1962). The church was first known as Patterson's Church and was represented by Christian Beeble/Bible (Eisenberg, The Lutheran Church in Virginia 1717-1962, 1967). Christian Bible was a Revolutionary War Veteran. His son Adam married Elizaeth Nehs (Neas), daughter of another Revolutionary War Veteran, and their descendants continued to populate the church throughout the years.

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As early as 1816, the Reverend Philip Henkel, pastor of Blue Springs, and Joseph E. Bell established a seminary at Blue Springs known as the Tennessee Academy. The Curriculum included German, Latin, Theology, and Hebrew (Cassell, Finck, and Henkel, The History of the Lutheran Church in Virginia and East Tennessee, p.278). 

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Patterson's Church had become Golden Springs by 1820 (Eisenberg, p. 137), and by 1844 had become Blue Springs (Cassell, Finck, and Henkel, p.278). The first church building had been a log structure. The 1844 deed to Blue Springs indicated that land owned by Philip Harmon was used for a brick church (Green County Trust Book No. 21, p. 674).

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During the Civil War, the Blue Springs Church was used as a hospital. The Battle of Blue Springs (1863) took place nearby. The Union troops suffered 100 killed and wounded. The Confederates losses were reported to be 150. The amputated limbs of the soldiers, along with some of the dead from the battle, were said to be buried in a mass grave in the front part of the cemetery (Battle of Blue Springs p. 56). After the war, at least 32 Civil War veterans are known to be buried in the cemetery.

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In 1872, the Lutheran minister, The Reverend James Melvin Wagner, established a local college at Blue Springs known as Mosheim Institute, named after the German Theologian, Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, and the town changed its name to Mosheim that year. This institution whose name was changed several times from 1869 to 1913 remained the only school of higher education until Greene County bought the school for Mosheim High School in 1913.

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The present church building was erected in 1893 by The Reverend F.M. Harr and continued to be used as a church until the fall of 2015.

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2015 marked a new beginning for the church building and cemetery. A new organization was formed, Blue Springs Historical Association, Inc. a 501 (c) (3) non-profit, to accept the responsibility of maintaining the grounds and restoring the building. This organization operates under a board of directors that fundraises, hosts the annual Decoration Day in May and the Old Blue Springs Day in October; to help keep the history alive and the grounds beautiful as it is located at an important place in the Town of Mosheim.