Pleasant Grove Christian Church

The congregation took its name from a place that was literally a grove. The Handbook of Texas says an early teacher, Don Lebow, named a school Pleasant Grove in the 1880s for the cottonwood grove it stood in, and the name spread to the community. A wooden building served as a union church and school by 1875. Pleasant Grove formed its own school district in 1937 and grew from 120 to 3,500 people between 1943 and 1952. It twice fought incorporation, and Dallas annexed it in 1954.

What the plaque says

Pleasant Grove Christian Church This congregation evolved from a rural Union Church which met as early as 1875 in a nearby cabin. The Ladies Aid Society was formed in 1906 and began raising funds for a separate church facility. Built in 1908 on this site, the one-room structure was struck by lightning and burned in 1913. At the completion of a second building, an annual Thanksgiving dinner tradition was begun. A third sanctuary, built in 1950, was damaged by fire the same year. It was rebuilt and, despite another fire in 1965, continued to serve its congregation, including descendants of pioneer families. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fair Park — 5.7 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 5.9 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 6.9 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 8.0 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.

More markers nearby

• Pleasant Mound Methodist Church — 1.0 mi
• Pleasant Mound "Public" Cemetery — 2.0 mi
• Pleasant Mound Cemetery — 2.0 mi
• Site of Scyene Meeting Place — 2.3 mi