Mt. Calm Methodist Church

Mount Calm moved to the tracks. The Handbook of Texas says about fifty families settled a mile south of the present site in the early 1850s, and that the name probably came from a French blacksmith named Mountcalm who worked between Springfield and Waco. The Texas and St. Louis line reached within a mile in 1881, and by the next year the businesses and most residents had moved beside it. The town incorporated in February 1900 and peaked near 634 people in 1907. A small 1929 oil find at 700 feet never became a field.

What the plaque says

Mt. Calm Methodist Church According to local tradition this congregation began in Mt. Calm, Limestone County, Texas, in the 1850s. By 1862 circuit preacher Andrew Davis held services in a schoolroom in the Mt. Calm Masonic Lodge. In 1883 the church erected a sanctuary here in the new town of Mt. Calm which had relocated to the Texas and St. Louis Railroad in Hill County. A new sanctuary was erected in 1906 and by 1910 the congregation sponsored a Sunday School and Woman's Home Mission Society. A new church building was erected in 1951. The church continues to serve the local community. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum — 20 mi
  The official state repository of Texas Ranger memorabilia, opened in 1968 in Fort Fisher Park on the Brazos, named for a Ranger post of 1837 whose site no one has located.
• Waco Suspension Bridge — 20 mi
  A Brazos crossing opened in January 1870 as the longest single-span suspension bridge west of the Mississippi, tolled until 1889, closed to vehicles in 1971 and now walked.
• Dr Pepper Museum — 20 mi
  The 1906 bottling plant of the Artesian Manufacturing and Bottling Company, built where Dr Pepper outgrew a Waco drugstore soda fountain, now the Dr Pepper Museum.
• Waco Mammoth National Monument — 20 mi
  A bone bed on the Bosque River where a nursery herd of at least 19 Columbian mammoths was trapped and drowned by floodwater 65,000 to 72,000 years ago, left in place under a dig shelter.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church of Mt. Calm — steps away
• Col. Leonard Williams — 2.3 mi
• Birome — 6.2 mi
• Town of Penelope — 7.5 mi