Meadow United Methodist Church

The congregation's town has stood in three places. It began as Primrose in the county's northeast corner, then moved early in the century to a site three miles east of today's Meadow, where W. N. Copeland kept a store and a post office that was then the farthest from a railroad in the United States. When the South Plains and Santa Fe built from Lubbock to Seagraves in 1917, the town moved to the line, and J. W. Peeler, who bought the old store, named the new town and became its first postmaster.

What the plaque says

Meadow United Methodist Church Methodist worship services were held in this area as early as 1904 by the Rev. J. A. Sweeney, a pioneer West Texas circuit rider. On Feb. 1, 1920, the Rev. J. W. Baughman formally organized this congregation with 17 charter members. Services were held in the schoolhouse or in the Baptist church building until the members built their own sanctuary in 1922. The Meadow Methodist Church was long associated with the Plains Circuit, serving for a time as its headquarters. The congregation welcomed its first full-time pastor in 1951. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• National Ranching Heritage Center — 26 mi
  A Texas Tech outdoor museum where ranch houses, barns, windmills and a depot from across the ranching country were moved one by one onto a single park beside the campus.
• Buddy Holly Center — 27 mi
  The city's museum of Buddy Holly and West Texas music in a 1928 railway depot, with the house where the Crickets worked on That'll Be the Day moved next door.
• Lubbock Lake Landmark — 27 mi
  A bend of Yellow House Draw on Lubbock's north edge where digging has found nearly 12,000 years of people on the Southern High Plains, layer on layer, from Clovis to the 1880s.
• American Windmill Museum — 28 mi
  Lubbock's park of restored water-pumping windmills and early wind chargers, more than 70 of them turning outdoors and the rare ones under roof, with a megawatt-era turbine overhead.

More markers nearby

• Brooks Blacksmith Shop — 0.2 mi
• Route of Nolan Expedition — 3.2 mi
• Site of Primrose School — 4.8 mi
• Ropesville Resettlement Project — 5.8 mi