First Christian Church

The church was dedicated in early 1905, the same year Woodson received its post office. By 1914 the town had some 250 people, two churches, a bank and a weekly paper, the Woodson Record. Growth came when the Cisco and Northeastern Railway was built in 1926, and the town survived as a market center for the southeast corner of the county even after the line stopped running in 1943. It has long been the second largest town in Throckmorton County, with Throckmorton and Albany drawing trade away.

What the plaque says

First Christian Church The area's earliest ranching families worshipped in each other's homes, occasionally organizing circuit rider visits and camp meetings. After a camp meeting in 1904, O.J. Wood conveyed land for a church site. Members constructed the church building and dedicated it in early 1905. Soon after, members elected deacons and elders and formally organized First Christian Church, with a Brother Weaver as the first pastor. An early community school met in the church building. The church built additional structures in the latter half of the 20th century. For over one hundred years, First Christian Church has continued to serve the spiritual needs of the Woodson community. (2023)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Griffin State Historic Site — 12 mi
  The ruins of an 1867 cavalry post on a plateau above the Clear Fork of the Brazos, judged unfit for habitation and used nine more years, now home to the official state longhorn herd.
• Fort Belknap — 20 mi
  The 1851 northern anchor of the first Texas frontier forts, on the Brazos below Newcastle, a Butterfield stop and the post beside the Brazos Reservation until its people were driven out in 1859.
• Old Jail Art Center — 25 mi
  An art museum in Albany's 1878 stone jail, where the masons carved their initials to be sure of pay, now holding Chinese tomb figures and works by Picasso and Klee.

More markers nearby

• Samuel P. Newcomb — 7.4 mi
• Bush Knob Massacre — 7.5 mi
• Murray Methodist Church — 9.6 mi
• Western Cattle Trail Crossings at Fort Griffin, The — 12 mi