Corinth Presbyterian Church

The church's paper trail starts later than its founding. The first surviving minutes are dated June 8, 1873, with W. P. Cloyd as moderator and C. A. McMillen among the officers, and the first pastor they name is the Rev. S. M. Wilkins. A Sunday school was organized May 24, 1896. In July 1923 the Plano Star Courier reported work starting on a $10,000 building after seven years as what it called a demonstration parish under the Rev. Sterling Richardson, when membership had grown from sixty-five to 175. Minutes for 1911 to 1924 are missing from the record book.

What the plaque says

Corinth Presbyterian Church Pioneer settler C.A. McMillen established the Corinth Society Church of August 2, 1846. Thought to be the oldest continuing church congregation in Collin County, its charter members included the Murphy, Wilkins, and Maxwell families. The church served as both a Presbyterian and a community church. The congregation first met east of Murphy in the Maxwell schoolhouse. After the Civil War, the church members met in the McMillen home, and later at the Wilkins schoolhouse. Several years later, the congregation constructed its first church building at the corner of Grey Lane and Gregory Lane. In the early 1920s Mr. and Mrs. C.C. Gregory donated more than two acres on Parker Road to the church. A new sanctuary was completed in 1923, and the congregation commemorated its dedication with day-long events at the new structure. The church building was refurbished in the 1980s, and a bell steeple was added. The church continues to serve the needs of its members, participates in community activities, and supports outreach programs in the area. Corinth Presbyterian Church has been an integral part of the Parker area for more than 150 years. (1996)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary — 7.1 mi
  A 289-acre sanctuary in McKinney that Bessie Heard founded at the age of 80, with five habitats, a 50-acre wetland and 6.5 miles of trails.
• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 13 mi
  A small museum in Harry Myers Park that keeps the evidence on Rockwall's rock wall, sandstone dikes that geologists call natural and folk tales call built.
• Fair Park — 21 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 21 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

• First Baptist Church of Murphy — 1.9 mi
• McMillen Cemetery — 1.9 mi
• Murphy Community — 2.7 mi
• First Methodist Church of Plano — 2.8 mi