Sadler United Methodist Church

Sadler took its name from a landowner. John Sadler gave land for a right-of-way around 1878 to persuade the Katy to extend its tracks to the settlement, which A. J. Cross had opened to settlers in 1869, soon joined by Zeke Hall and Jim Beach. The post office came in 1892, three years before the Methodists moved to this corner. The Handbook counts seven businesses there by 1936 and says Sadler incorporated by the mid-1970s.

What the plaque says

Sadler United Methodist Church First called Quillin's chapel, this church was organized in Sept. 1876 in a schoolhouse just west of Sadler Cemetery. The Rev. William M. Robbins (1836-98), then serving the Dexter circuit, was the founding pastor. J. P. Collier, E. J. Craven, William Jones, James Mitchell, and W. S. Robinson were the original trustees. Renamed Salem Methodist Church in 1880, the congregation became Sadler Methodist when it moved to this site in 1895. Local contractor Joe Cariker erected the present church building in 1910. (1977)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge — 6.8 mi
  A 1946 refuge on the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma, laid over land bought for Denison Dam and the site of the vanished railroad town of Hagerman, now a winter stop for geese.
• Eisenhower State Park — 17 mi
  A bluff-top park on Lake Texoma opened in 1958 on land leased from the Corps of Engineers, in the Red River country of Fort Johnson, Colbert's Ferry and the Butterfield stages.
• Great Hanging Memorial — 17 mi
  Two granite monuments in a Gainesville park, dedicated in 2014, for the Cooke County men the Confederate militia hanged in October 1862 on suspicion of Unionism.
• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site — 19 mi
  The small frame house beside the Katy tracks in Denison where Dwight Eisenhower was born in 1890, bought by townspeople in 1946 and given to Texas in 1958.

More markers nearby

• Sanborn Ranch — 3.5 mi
• Diamond Horse Ranch — 4.9 mi
• First Site of City of Sherman — 8.6 mi
• Hiram Lodge No. 433, A. F. & A. M. — 9.2 mi