New Mine Baptist Church

The Pittsburg visitor site's historic cemeteries tour says George O. and Julia F. Hart deeded land to New Mine Baptist Church on July 20, 1892, and sold the congregation more ten years later. For years area residents used Reeves Chapel Cemetery, about a mile west, or Pittsburg's. In May 1930 the church began planning its own burial ground, and James M. Quillion, who died that year, was the first buried there. George Hart, who died in 1929, was reburied in 1937 at his family's request, and the first fence went up in 1939.

What the plaque says

New Mine Baptist Church This congregation traces its history to 1892 when Mr. and Mrs. G. O. Hart gave an acre of land for a new church building. The church was officially organized on September 11, 1892, and the Rev. J. H. Floyd served as the first pastor. One of the main reasons for the establishment of this congregation was so the members would not have to travel to Pittsburg for worship services. It has remained a small rural church, with various structures built over the years to accommodate the membership, which includes descendants of charter members. (1992)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lake Bob Sandlin State Park — 7.8 mi
  A 1987 state park on a 9,000-acre reservoir, where a Republic of Texas stockade called Fort Sherman stood in 1838 and the Caddo lived from A.D. 800 to 1860, now with fishing piers, trails and cabins.
• Daingerfield State Park — 19 mi
  A pine-and-hardwood park built in 1935-39 by a white and a Black Civilian Conservation Corps company, with a dammed lake, Bass Lodge and a 2.4-mile loop trail around the water.
• Governor Hogg Shrine — 29 mi
  Quitman's 27-acre city park, once a state historical park, where two houses tied to James Stephen Hogg's marriage stand beside an arboretum, a nature walk and the grounds of the Old Settlers Reunion.

More markers nearby

• Reeves Chapel — 0.9 mi
• The Ezekiel Airship — 2.8 mi
• Pittsburg — 3.0 mi
• Pitts Family Cemetery — 3.0 mi