Limuru was one of the earliest European settlements with records indicating a Mr. W.H. Caine planting Kenya’s first tea in this area in 1903.
By 1910 there was a sizeable settler community in the area towards Tigoni and the first church service on record was conducted on January 15, 1910 by the Rev. P.A. Bennet, after whom Bennet’s Ridge Road from Kamiti to Kitamaiyu was named. Later, on December 17, 1911, the Rev. W.P. Low conducted a service on Buxton Farm.
