Birdville Church of Christ

The plaque names Richard M. Gano as the evangelist of a 1900 revival here. Gano was born in Kentucky in 1830, trained as a physician, and was a Disciples of Christ minister whose father worked with Alexander Campbell and Barton Stone. He represented Tarrant County in the Texas legislature in 1860, resigned to fight for the Confederacy, and was promoted to brigadier general in 1865. After the war he preached for forty-five years, helped establish many churches, and brought fine cattle, horses, sheep and hogs into Texas. He died in Dallas in 1913.

What the plaque says

Birdville Church of Christ On February 26, 1852, soon after Birdville became the Tarrant County seat, 12 charter members attended this congregation's first worship service. After reorganizing in 1882, the members met in the Birdville school building. In 1900, Richard M. Gano, the well-known evangelist and Confederate general, conducted a revival. This land was acquired from the John McCord family and a frame building was erected in 1906. After a 1950 fire, this brick auditorium was constructed and then repaired after a 1970 fire. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Worth Stockyards — 5.5 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 5.7 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 7.6 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 8.0 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

More markers nearby

• West Fork Baptist Association — steps away
• Pioneer Birdville Schools — steps away
• Dr. Riley Andrew Ransom — 2.2 mi
• I. D. Parker Public Cemetery and Homestead — 2.9 mi