FIRST -- Baptist Prayer Meeting, Old North Church, Nacogdoches TX
N 31° 40.088 W 094° 39.497
15R E 342794 N 3504845
The Old North Baptist Church, the site of the first Baptist Prayer Meeting in Texas
Waymark Code: WMXJ9H
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/18/2018
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When the first Baptist Prayer Meeting in Texas was held at this site in 1835 under a spreading love oak tree, Texas was part of Mexico, and therefore it was illegal to worship in any Protestant religion.
A sign under a 500-year-old live oak tree that finally succumbed to Hurricane Rita in 2005 reads as follows:
“UNDER THIS TREE”
The first Baptist prayer meeting was organized in 1835, by Aunt Massey Sparks Millard.
Isaac Reed in 1835 preached the first Baptist sermon.
Isaac Reed and Elder R. G. Green organized the first Baptist Church in the state of Texas, the first Sunday in May 1838, the church known today as Old North Church.
The first Protestant school in Texas was taught in a one room log house in the shadows of the old oak tree.
Remember, God alone can make a tree.”
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Date of FIRST: 01/01/1835
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