Immanuel Lutheran Church
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WalksfarTX
N 30° 33.136 W 097° 27.178
14R E 648383 N 3381001
Black metal plaque on a metal pole along the road to the right of the church driveway.
Waymark Code: WMW3NV
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 07/06/2017
Views: 1
Plaque gives the history of the church, its early formation and the building of the sanctuary and parsonage.
Marker Number: 9110
Marker Text:
German immigrants began settling in the new railroad town of Taylor in the 1880s. Lutheran worship services were held as early as 1885, and the Rev. I. J. Glatzle and fourteen families formally organized this congregation in 1888. The Rev. Gus Szillat became the church's first resident pastor when a parsonage was built in 1892. A frame church building completed in 1894 was destroyed in a 1916 fire, but the congregation soon rebuilt. Worship services were conducted in the German language until the 1940s. The church remains a reflection of the town's ethnic heritage.
(1994)
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