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Shooks Chapel Methodist Church

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Sulphur Springs, TX, USA

Latitude & Longitude: 33° 4' 46.95296000016", -95° 35' 50.11176000012"
 
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     This church traces its history to 1886, when area settlers organized a congregation of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The church was named for the Rev. W. A. Shook, who held the first revival here. The congregation met in a brush arbor or a nearby schoolhouse until a sanctuary was built on land donated by B. P. Joiner. Early worship services were led by student pastors who were often paid in produce. Associated with the church is a community cemetery, begun in 1889. A second sanctuary, built in 1916, was replaced by a new structure in 1974.

This page last updated: 7/15/2008

Shooks Chapel Methodist Church Historical Marker Location Map, Sulphur Springs, Texas