Evangelical Free Church

The congregation belonged to a Swedish denomination whose formal start came in Boone, Iowa, in October 1884, when about twenty-seven churches united. Glynda Joy Nord's history of the Georgetown church recalls that the Swedish Evangelical Free Church had 185 congregations when it merged in June 1950 with a Norwegian-Danish association of ninety churches, at Medicine Lake near Minneapolis. The merger created the Evangelical Free Church of America. Georgetown's Brushy Evangelical Free Church, organized in 1891, was part of that Swedish body.

What the plaque says

Evangelical Free Church Swedish immigrant settlers in Williamson County met together in homes for worship services as early as 1884. In 1891 this congregation was organized in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sven Peterson by 21 charter members. Known as Brushy Evangelical Free Church, the congregation built a sanctuary in 1892 on land southeast of Georgetown donated by C.J. Gustafson. This Georgetown site was acquired in 1960, and a new sanctuary was dedicated in 1963. This church has been part of Williamson County history for nearly a century. (1988)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Williamson County Courthouse — 0.9 mi
  The fifth Williamson County courthouse, a Beaux Arts building by C. H. Page, rises over a Georgetown square of more than 50 Victorian-era buildings.
• Inner Space Cavern — 2.3 mi
  A Georgetown cave found in 1963 when highway engineers drilled test holes, holding Pleistocene fossils and 72-degree rooms that visitors reach by an artificial tunnel.
• The Round Rock — 8.5 mi
  A table-shaped stone in Brushy Creek gave Round Rock its name in 1854; the Chisholm Trail crossed the creek near it, and Old Town stayed behind when the railroad pulled the town east.
• Mount Bonnell — 23 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

• Southwestern University — steps away
• Judge Harry N. Graves — 0.3 mi
• Iota Chapter, Kappa Sigma Fraternity — 0.3 mi
• Xi Chapter, Kappa Alpha Order — 0.4 mi