FIRST - Methodist Curcit Rider in Area - Follett, TX
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 36° 25.997 W 100° 08.244
14S E 398050 N 4032608
The bell and tower is now in a large grassy area west of the church.
Waymark Code: WM1364D
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/25/2020
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County of Marker: Lipscomb County
Location of Marker: E. Ivanhoe St. (TX-15), Follett
Marker Erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Date Marker Erected: 1977
Marker Text:
FOLLETT UNITED
METHODIST CHURCH
AND CHURCH BELL
The Rev. Grant. L. Hayes, first Methodist circuit rider in this area, founded the Ivanhoe, Oklahoma, church 3 miles to the north in 1902; the Stillwater Church, 6 miles east, in Texas in 1904. After Follett originated on the Santa Fe Railroad in 1917, the two congregations merged here. The Old Ivanhoe church bell, cast in Ohio in 1907, was relocated at the Follett building site in 1919, installed in
first church tower in 1924, and brought as a link from the historic past to the modern church (built 1961) in 1976.
(1977)
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