Concord Missionary Baptist Church

The church is older than the community around it. The Handbook says a Concord Baptist church and cemetery stood here before a settlement developed, and that the name probably came from the first settlers' hometown of Concord, Massachusetts. A post office ran from 1884 to 1904, then mail went to Jewett until the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway came through in 1908 and the office reopened in 1909. A 1956 fire destroyed the post office building, which moved into the school. In the early 1950s two pipeline companies closed and transferred their workers.

What the plaque says

Concord Missionary Baptist Church The historic Concord Missionary Baptist Church was organized on April 21, 1855 by pioneer settlers prior to the establishment of the community of Concord. The first pastor was the Reverend W. A. Walker who is buried in the Concord Cemetery near the church. Isaac Burleson donated the land for a building. In 1855, a Greek Revival style building was erected. The deed for the church was recorded on June 7, 1856. The church was remodeled in 1961. On September 2, 2011, a Labor Day weekend wildfire destroyed the historic Concord Missionary Baptist Church sanctuary. (1970, 2012)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Boggy State Park — 10 mi
  A 1,847-acre park in Leon County named for a settlers' palisade of 1840, with a 15-acre lake, short trails and the story of Tennessee farmers, the Keechi and a Ranger captain.
• Old Fort Parker — 32 mi
  A rebuilt 1830s family stockade near the Navasota River, where a May 1836 attack killed men of the Parker settlement and took five captives, among them nine-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker.

More markers nearby

• Concord Schools — 0.3 mi
• Jewett Methodist Church — 7.2 mi
• Fort Boggy — 9.6 mi
• Site of Fort Boggy — 10 mi