Patrick Community

The church that remains in the Patrick Community was a Presbyterian congregation, organized on September 23, 1881, which petitioned the Texas Presbytery for acceptance. A history of Rusk County Cumberland Presbyterians thinks its organizers likely came from Pine Grove, which disbanded around 1905 to 1906. I. W. Hill was an early moderator, and J. A. Hornbeak and A. A. Swain were among its ministers. After the Presbyterian merger of 1906 it became Pleasant Springs Presbyterian Church, P.C. (USA). Members of Pine Grove joined Willow Springs or Pleasant Springs.

What the plaque says

Patrick Community In 1854 the Patrick brothers, James Moore (1795-1867), John Thomas Campbell (1814-68), and Minor Leander (b. 1818), led Presbyterian families from South Carolina to Rusk County. John built a six-room log house on the Shreveport-Douglass Road. The brothers' nearby homes formed the hub of this community. Originally called Pleasant Springs, after the Civil War it boasted a church house and school, cotton gin, grist mill, store, and post office. By 1925 businesses closed but the school remained active until World War II. The church is all that remains of the once thriving village. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tex Ritter Museum and Texas Country Music Hall of Fame — 18 mi
  Carthage's country music museum, with Tex Ritter's boots, guitars and saddles in a room styled like a movie theater, and exhibits on other Texas stars, Jim Reeves among them.
• New London Museum and Cenotaph — 22 mi
  A volunteer-run museum beside the pink granite cenotaph for the March 1937 school gas explosion, holding a model of the school, a blackboard from that day and an odorizer device.
• East Texas Oil Museum — 26 mi
  A Kilgore College museum that rebuilds the 1930s oil boom in a full-scale Boomtown with a general store, drugstore and newspaper office, plus dioramas, films and antiques given by East Texans.

More markers nearby

• Brachfield — 1.1 mi
• Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church & Cemetery — 2.9 mi
• Richard Brown — 3.2 mi
• Allison Chapel United Methodist Church — 8.8 mi