Miller Grove Methodist Church

The 1968 name change in the plaque was part of a national merger. The Evangelical United Brethren Church and the Methodist Church formed the United Methodist Church that year, the Handbook of Texas says, at a uniting conference in Dallas. That conference called for eliminating the segregated central jurisdiction, and by 1970 all Black Methodists in Texas had been integrated into the five geographical annual conferences. Miller Grove itself, the Handbook adds, had a Presbyterian church said to date from 1848 and a school with 114 pupils in 1905.

What the plaque says

Miller Grove Methodist Church Circuit-riding ministers held worship services for Methodists in Miller Grove one Sunday a month as early as 1860. Formally organized in 1870, the congregation met in the community schoolhouse until members constructed their own sanctuary at this site on land donated by the Corbet family. Completed in 1900, the church building was used for many years by other denominations and for various community functions. The historic congregation was renamed Miller Grove United Methodist Church in 1968.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Audie Murphy / American Cotton Museum — 18 mi
  A Greenville museum of Hunt County's military heroes, including Audie Murphy, and of cotton, which keeps the engine of what it says was the world's largest inland cotton compress.
• Cooper Lake State Park — 24 mi
  Two units on Jim Chapman Lake, a Corps reservoir proposed in the late 1930s, stalled by a lawsuit until 1984 and dedicated in 1991, with a 10.5-mile equestrian trail and wildlife land around it.

More markers nearby

• Miller Grove School — steps away
• Dougherty Community Cemetery — 6.2 mi
• Isaac Newton Gresham — 6.6 mi
• Site of Plunkett School — 7.8 mi