Near Site of Pansy Baptist Church

The community the church served first took its name from H. S. Shives, one of the earliest settlers in the county, who called it Pansy Mills for the flower and for two windmills nearby. It stood beside one of the Two Buckle Ranch lakes, on land of the Kentucky cattle company, which kept a ranch camp close by. Shives ran a post office there from June 15, 1894, to April 3, 1896. The Pansy school district dated from about 1893; it enrolled thirty-six pupils in 1927 and merged with the McAdoo school on May 11, 1936.

What the plaque says

Near Site of Pansy Baptist Church The Pansy Baptist Church was organized in 1905 by J. V. Leatherwood, John Holt, P. H. Leatherwood, Snow Loyd, and J. M. Leatherwood to serve the residents of the Pansy community. Church services were conducted in the school building until 1916 when the congregation constructed its first sanctuary. An arbor was built on the church grounds for revival services. The church building was moved two miles south in 1946 for the convenience of the membership. A parsonage was erected in 1947 for the congregation's first full-time pastor. A new sanctuary was built and was dedicated on July 16, 1950. The church building burned in August 1965, and services were held in a church member's barn until December, when a new structure was completed. The church supported a strong mission outreach program. Through the years population dwindled in the rural community of Pansy. In 1995 the remaining members of the Pansy Baptist Church voted to disband. The church building was donated to the Mt. Zion Baptist Church, an African American congregation in Floydada. The building was moved 32 miles by 140 volunteers from Crosbyton, Pansy, Floydada, and Wiley. (1996)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum — 10 mi
  Crosbyton's museum of Blanco Canyon, built in 1958 as a copy of Hank Smith's Rock House, and the place to learn the canyon's 1871 fight between Mackenzie's cavalry and Quanah's Quahadi Comanche.
• Spur-Dickens County Museum — 19 mi
  Dickens County's museum on the main block of Spur, a town born on November 1, 1909, when the first train reached the land a New York syndicate was selling off from the Spur Ranch.
• Motley County Historical Museum — 27 mi
  Matador's museum in the 1928 Traweek Hospital, in the county seat a Scottish-owned ranch created by having its cowboys open one-day businesses to pass a state rule.

More markers nearby

• Site of Leatherwood School — steps away
• Marshall Clinton Formby, Jr. — 3.1 mi
• Old Dewey Lake — 6.6 mi
• Two-Buckle Ranch Headquarters, Kentucky Cattle Raising Company — 6.6 mi