Saint Peter's Episcopal Church

St. Peter's began under the missionary district of Western Texas and its first bishop, Robert W. B. Elliott, who made San Antonio his headquarters and St. Mark's Church his cathedral. In his thirteen years three more San Antonio churches were founded: St. Luke's in a suburb on San Pedro Creek, St. John's out of a Sunday school and free dispensary for the poor, and St. Paul's beside Fort Sam Houston. He refounded St. Mary's Hall, and at Seguin, which had no public school, the church opened St. Andrew's Academy for boys and Montgomery Academy for girls.

What the plaque says

Saint Peter's Episcopal Church Pioneer Episcopalians worshiped at the Kerr County Courthouse in 1881. In 1884-88, they erected a small frame Gothic church. The Rev. J. E. Hole served 1890-91 as first resident rector; the Rev. Richard Galbraith, 1894-1908, as first permanent rector. In 1908 Saint Peter's became a parish. The Rev. J. E. Ellis, 1908-13 rector, founded a Boy Scout troop here, before scouting had originated nationally. The present church was built in 1928. Annexes were added later. The greatly enlarged membership includes descendants of early communicants. (1977)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Schreiner Mansion — 0.3 mi
  The 1879 downtown home of Charles Schreiner, the Alsatian-born merchant, banker and rancher whose store and mohair trade built Kerrville.
• Treue der Union Monument — 14 mi
  An 1866 German-language monument in Comfort over the graves of Hill Country Unionists killed at the Nueces in 1862, its flag of thirty-six stars kept at half-staff.
• Old Tunnel State Park — 19 mi
  A railroad tunnel abandoned in 1942 that now shelters up to three million Mexican free-tailed bats, who fly out each evening from May through October.
• Frontier Times Museum — 22 mi
  A museum built of fossils, petrified wood and cave formations in Bandera, holding a printer-historian's collection of frontier relics and oddities.

More markers nearby

• Notre Dame Catholic School — steps away
• Notre Dame Catholic Church — steps away
• Christian Dietert Mill — 0.2 mi
• Kerrville Telephone Company — 0.2 mi