Sabinal Methodist Church

By 1911 Sabinal was a commercial and farming center for about 2,500 people, with some 35,000 acres under cultivation nearby and as many as five general stores. Cotton was booming, and local stock raisers were producing thousands of hogs, cattle, sheep and goats. In 1914 the town of about 2,000 supported Baptist, Catholic, Christian, Methodist and Presbyterian churches, a high school and a grade school, an ice plant, two banks, three cotton gins and a weekly newspaper, the Sentinel, which Harold Baldwin had started in 1890.

What the plaque says

Sabinal Methodist Church This church began in 1876 as part of the Sabinal circuit assigned to the Rev. Henry T. Hill. Circuit ministers served the fellowship until 1900, when it became an organized congregation. Services were held in the Christian and Baptist church buildings until the present structure was completed in 1907. For a time pastors at Sabinal Methodist Church also served new rural congregations in Trio and Knippa. As the membership grew and church programs expanded to meet the needs of the community, additions were made to the church facility. 1983

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Inge Historical Site — 20 mi
  A county park on the Leona River below a 140-foot volcanic plug, where an army post guarded the new road to El Paso from 1849 to 1869 and Texas Rangers camped after.
• Uvalde Grand Opera House — 21 mi
  An 1891 Victorian opera house on the Uvalde square with a turret and a dragon weathervane, once owned by John Nance Garner and still staging volunteer theater upstairs.
• Briscoe-Garner Museum — 21 mi
  The Uvalde house of John Nance Garner, the vice president who made the office a power in Congress, now a free museum to him and to Governor Dolph Briscoe.
• Garner State Park — 26 mi
  The Frio River park that Uvalde County built with the Civilian Conservation Corps and named for its own vice president, where people have danced on the stone pavilion every summer since the 1940s.

More markers nearby

• First Baptist Church, Sabinal — 0.2 mi
• John M. Davenport — 0.5 mi
• Sabinal — 0.5 mi
• Site of Camp Sabinal — 0.9 mi