Morgan Mill Tabernacle

The mill came first. The Handbook of Texas says M. C. Laughlin and J. R. Billingsley moved a corn and wheat mill to the North Paluxy River in 1874. Criss Brooks started the first store in 1876. In 1877 George Morgan bought an interest in the mill, and a post office opened that year. The name changed from Morgan's Mill to Morgan Mill in 1892. The town had 143 residents in 1900 and 261 in 1940, and in later decades it drew retirees and commuters to the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The plaque dates the tabernacle itself to 1910.

What the plaque says

Morgan Mill Tabernacle The community of Morgan Mill, named for early settler George Bryan Morgan, traces its history to the mid-19th century. A post office was established in 1877. Several community church congregations shared a brush arbor in the summers for revivals and other meetings. In 1910 the brush arbor was replaced with this permanent structure, named the Morgan Mill Tabernacle. In addition to serving the churches, the tabernacle also was used by the local school and other community organizations. It remains in use as a community gathering place. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Granbury Courthouse Square — 23 mi
  A National Register square of limestone storefronts around W. C. Dodson's Second Empire courthouse, whose clock tower citizens saved after a 1968 tornado.
• Dinosaur Valley State Park — 23 mi
  Theropod and sauropod trackways of about 113 million years ago in the bed of the Paluxy River, a National Natural Landmark where R. T. Bird found the first distinct sauropod tracks in 1937.
• Dublin Bottling Works — 23 mi
  The Erath County plant that bottled Dr Pepper with cane sugar from 1891 until a 2012 settlement ended its Dr Pepper license, and that still makes its own sodas the same way.

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• Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge — 8.6 mi
• Old Public Water Well — 9.0 mi
• Cornelia Graves — 11 mi