1924 - Bethel United Methodist Church - Waxahachie, TX
N 32° 17.743 W 096° 54.890
14S E 696339 N 3575123
The current sanctuary of Bethel United Methodist Church was built in 1924, and is located at 534 Bethel Rd, Waxahachie, TX. They are United Methodist Historic Site number 395.
Waymark Code: WMMAAV
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2014
Views: 7
A Texas Historical Marker here provides some background:
In 1853 Bethel Church was begun under a brush arbor at High Springs. After meeting in a log school building at Greathouse, services were moved in 1860 to a schoolhouse at Bethel on Baker's Branch. The first meetinghouse, built south of the cemetery in 1872, was destroyed in an 1892 storm. The second, located north of the cemetery, was replaced in 1924 by the present sanctuary. The tabernacle, built in 1907, served for camp meetings and God's Acre sales. A parsonage, erected in the early 1900s on E.M. Brack's land at Boz, was moved to this site in 1952.
Year of construction: 1924
Full inscription:
Bethel M.E. Church South
Erected 1924
W.D. Gaskins, Pastor
Building Committee
R.E. Edmondson, Ch'm.
Dr. W.P. Sims, Treas.
J.V. Forbes, Secy.
G.C. Cunningham
J.R. Dunaway
A.R. Varnell
C.S. Johnston
J.B. Underwood
E.A. Black
Cross-listed waymark: Not listed
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