Cochran Chapel Methodist Church

The chapel began as two congregations looking for one roof. According to the church's history, Rev. Thomas Brown preached the neighborhood's first sermon in the Cochran cabin in 1844, and Rev. Daniel Shook formed the first circuit in March 1845 with five members. In the mid-1850s the Methodist societies at Webb Chapel and Cedar Springs agreed to merge and build near the Cochran farm, halfway between. At the 1858 dedication, women sat on one side of the aisle and men on the other, and guns were stacked beside the door for protection.

What the plaque says

Cochran Chapel Methodist Church On first Dallas County site deeded (1856) for a Methodist church. Donor was a widow, Nancy Jane Cochran. First edifice (30' x 40') was built by church men, of lumber hauled by wagons from Jefferson (150 mi. E), and dedicated in 1858. The Sunday School dates from 1879. Later buildings were erected in 1885, 1924 and (Annex) 1955. 1970

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dallas Museum of Art — 5.6 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 5.9 mi
  A plow-company warehouse of 1903, identified by the Warren Commission as the building Oswald fired from, now a museum on its sixth and seventh floors above Dealey Plaza.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 6.7 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 7.1 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

More markers nearby

• Cochran Chapel Cemetery — steps away
• Garvin Memorial Cemetery — 0.5 mi
• Ursuline Academy — 1.4 mi
• Oath of Office of President Johnson — 1.5 mi