Dripping Springs United Methodist Church

The town the congregation served began before the Civil War. The first settler is thought to have been a man named Fawcett, about 1849, and families were farming the valleys of Little Barton and Onion creeks in the early 1850s. A permanent post office opened in 1857. By 1884 Dripping Springs had a steam gristmill, a cotton gin and 130 people, with a public school and the Dripping Springs Academy. Its place on the Austin to Fredericksburg road kept it alive, and by 2000 it had grown to 1,548 people.

What the plaque says

Dripping Springs United Methodist Church Methodists in the Dripping Springs area first gathered for worship in the one-room log home of Dr. J. W. Pound in 1854. Two prominent 19th-century circuit preachers who served Dripping Springs were the Rev. Andrew J. Potter and the Rev. Orceneth A. Fisher. In 1880, the congregation built its first sanctuary on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Phillips. In keeping with its history of community service, the congregation has often extended the use of its church home to newly organized churches of other denominations. (1985)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pedernales Falls State Park — 12 mi
  The Pedernales stepping down over layered limestone east of Johnson City, a river that can turn from a placid stream to a torrent in minutes.
• Barton Springs Pool — 19 mi
  A three-acre pool in the bed of Barton Creek, fed by the fourth-largest spring in Texas at 68 to 70 degrees, and shared with an endangered salamander found almost nowhere else.
• Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park — 20 mi
  The Johnson City district of the national park: the Victorian house where Lyndon Johnson grew up, and the stone barns his grandfather built in the Johnson Settlement.
• Mount Bonnell — 20 mi
  Austin's old lookout over the Colorado, named by an 1838 traveler, picnicked on by George and Libbie Custer, and reached by a 1939 flight of about 100 limestone steps.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Dripping Springs — 1.1 mi
• Driftwood Cemetery — 6.6 mi
• Lohmans Crossing — 13 mi
• The Century-Old Wimberley Cemetery — 14 mi