Montell Methodist Church

Montell takes its name from Charles S. DeMontel, sent by the state to survey public lands on the upper Nueces, who camped here. English and Irish families moved in during the late 1870s and early 1880s, a post office opened in 1879, and around 1890 two churches were established: the Methodist, and the Episcopal Church of the Ascension, known for a stained glass window given by the estate of John Jacob Astor. The post office closed after 1930. Montell had about seventy-five people in 1926, ten by 1964 and twenty in 2000.

What the plaque says

Montell Methodist Church A Methodist Church mission was established in the community of Montell in 1889. Served by missionary N. W. Keith, the congregation met in a number of locations, including a brush arbor in the summer months. A Union Sunday School was organized by 1895. A permanent church building was dedicated on June 1, 1908. Services were held once a month except for a period during Word War II when they were temporarily suspended. Since 1948 the congregation has met for worship on alternating Sundays. Descendants of pioneer members remain active in the church. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garner State Park — 17 mi
  The Frio River park that Uvalde County built with the Civilian Conservation Corps and named for its own vice president, where people have danced on the stone pavilion every summer since the 1940s.
• Real County Historical Museum — 20 mi
  A small county museum in Leakey, at the head of the Frio Canyon, with a log-cabin parlor, an 1880s horse-drawn hearse, a wool and mohair shearing machine and 1910s jail cells.
• Briscoe-Garner Museum — 26 mi
  The Uvalde house of John Nance Garner, the vice president who made the office a power in Congress, now a free museum to him and to Governor Dolph Briscoe.
• Uvalde Grand Opera House — 26 mi
  An 1891 Victorian opera house on the Uvalde square with a turret and a dragon weathervane, once owned by John Nance Garner and still staging volunteer theater upstairs.

More markers nearby

• Near Site of Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria Mission — steps away
• Site of the Mission Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria (2nd Marker) — steps away
• General John R. Baylor — steps away
• Charles A. Lindbergh in Texas — 9.1 mi