Cadiz Baptist Church

Cadiz was Lapara in the 1870s, a name the Handbook traces possibly to the Spanish la parral. R. C. Eeds opened a store there in the late 1870s. A post office opened in 1892 and the place took the name Cadiz. Fifty people lived here in 1914 and twenty-five in the early 1930s. The late 1930s brought two churches, a store, a cotton gin, a three-teacher school and a service station. The post office closed in 1942, and the population was reported at fifteen from the late 1950s into the 2000s.

What the plaque says

Cadiz Baptist Church This congregation, orginally known as Lapara Baptist Church, was organized on Aug. 12, 1877, by 32 charter members. Services were held under a brush arbor and in a schoolhouse before a sanctuary was erected on Lapara Creek. The building was moved here in 1920, and the church was renamed for the Cadiz settlement. The facility later was enlarged to accommodate the growing church. In 1960 the congregation won the Rural Church of the Year award. In recent years the church has aided disaster victims and supported ministerial students and Christian crusades. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Choke Canyon State Park — 25 mi
  A reservoir state park on the Frio River in two units, built after a 1982 dam, with birds, alligators and fishing on land people have crossed for more than 10,000 years.

More markers nearby

• Gentry Dugat — 6.3 mi
• Oakville Post Office — 10 mi
• Oakville — 10 mi
• Gussettville — 10 mi