Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church

Pat B. Clark's 1937 county history says the congregation first met under a large oak four miles northeast of Clarksville, with James Latimer among the pioneers who joined Milton Estill. The first building was hewed and split logs. Clark says Sam Corley came from Rutherford County, Tennessee, in 1840 as first pastor of Shiloh and nearby churches, and that the first Red River Presbytery met in December 1842, with Corley as clerk. Clark credits Estill with organizing the first presbytery in Texas at Clarksville.

What the plaque says

Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church In this vicinity the Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church was organized in June 1833 by Rev. Milton Estill

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Lennox Woods Preserve — 9.0 mi
  A Nature Conservancy preserve of mature East Texas forest north of Clarksville, kept by the Lennox family for four generations, with a 1.5-mile loop under post oaks more than 300 years old.
• Wheelock Academy Historic Site — 24 mi
  The Choctaw Nation's academy for girls, rebuilt in 1884 near Millerton and a boarding school until 1955, with its museum in the old teachers' dormitory.

More markers nearby

• The Northern Standard — 3.6 mi
• Five Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence from Red River County — 3.7 mi
• Members of Confederate Congresses — 3.7 mi
• The Rev. William Stevenson — 3.7 mi