Rock Hill Baptist Church

The Handbook of Texas ties the church to the school where it began. A school stood on the Coke Road at Rock Hill by 1870, and that year a Baptist church was organized there. A Rock Hill public school district was established in 1884, and in 1905 the school had seventy-three White and fifty-seven Black students. The school later moved to the junction of Farm Road 2966 and County Road 1370. The same entry says Andrew Gilbreath settled the area in 1850 and that the community was reportedly named for a local geological formation.

What the plaque says

Rock Hill Baptist Church Organized in 1870 in school on Coke Road. First church was built in 1892. Charter members: Joe Bird, John Corley, W. W. Grice, and R. H. Galloway. First pastor: the Rev. Jeff Warlick. L. F. Banks, earliest ordained minister (in 1888). Since turn of century average membership has been 170. (1970)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Governor Hogg Shrine — 7.6 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.
• Lake Bob Sandlin State Park — 24 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.

More markers nearby

• Pleasant Grove School & Cemetery — 4.6 mi
• Black Oak Baptist Church — 5.4 mi
• James Stephen Hogg — 7.3 mi
• J. H. Jones and the Old Settlers Reunion Grounds — 7.6 mi