Methodist Church, 1844

College Mound took its name from a college that was planned and never built, according to the Handbook of Texas. The building here has served many: at one time Methodists, Presbyterians, Christians, Missionary Baptists and Primitive Baptists all shared it. One account tells of two saloonkeepers from Elmo who tried to heckle the minister until an unknown man, said to resemble Abraham Lincoln, took one outside and thrashed him. The post office opened in 1850 with John L. Beck as postmaster, and the school merged into Terrell's in 1949.

What the plaque says

Methodist Church, 1844 In 1844 A. J. Beck, Henry Beck, Wilson Fogleman, A. H. Henry, W. T. Patton, Ed. King settled in this vicinity. A Methodist church was organized in 1845 with Rev. J. W. Fields as pastor; A. H. Henry, Ed. King, stewards; A. H. Henry, Sunday School Superintendent. In 1865 a frame building replaced the log church. In 1897 the present building was constructed; the land for the church was donated by W.T. Patton

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• No. 1 British Flying Training School Museum — 5.7 mi
  A free museum at Terrell's airport where about 2,200 RAF cadets learned to fly between 1941 and 1945, with logbooks, uniforms, letters and original training aircraft.
• Rockwall County Historical Foundation & Museum — 23 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.

More markers nearby

• Major W.F. Long — 5.4 mi
• No. 1 British Flying Training School — 5.7 mi
• Terrell State Hospital — 6.3 mi
• William Henry Burnett — 6.6 mi