Red Lick Methodist Church

By the late 1800s the Handbook of Texas says social life in Red Lick centered on this church. Its records from the early 1890s listed seventy names, and the trustees of 1906 came from the Hargis, Earnest, Edwards, Medley and White families. A fire destroyed the church in 1909, and the congregation raised a two-story one on the same site. A tornado in June 1935 damaged that second building heavily. A cemetery eventually took the adjoining tract to the north.

What the plaque says

Red Lick Methodist Church According to oral tradition, the Red Lick Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was founded in 1885. Church services have taken place at this site, upon land donated by the Bob Bonner family, since the 1890s. During the early years the group met in a combination church/school/lodge structure. Women and men sat on opposite sides of the building, and baptism by immersion was performed in a nearby pond. The group changed its name to Red Lick United Methodist Church in 1968. It continues to play an important role in the community's religious life. (1992)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Museum of Regional History — 8.3 mi
  Texarkana's oldest museum, in an 1879 brick building on State Line Avenue, with Caddo pottery, one of Scott Joplin's pianos and a research library of city directories and photographs.
• Atlanta State Park — 17 mi
  A shoreline park on Wright Patman Lake, leased from the Army in 1954, where Caddo ancestors farmed the Sulphur River and wagon traces such as the Bobo Ferry trace still cross the woods.

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• Rose Hill Cemetery — 7.9 mi