Site of the Old Adobe

McCullough's adobe church belonged to a young denomination in Texas. Cumberland Presbyterians had arrived with Sumner Bacon in 1829, and Peter H. Fullenwider began Old School work in Austin's colony in 1834. Hugh Wilson organized the first Old School church near San Augustine in 1838. The Old School Synod of Texas was organized at Austin in 1851, and New School Presbyterians, fewer in number, had a presbytery by 1854. In 1861 Texas Presbyterians joined the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States, and in 1865 most congregations affiliated with the Southern church.

What the plaque says

Site of the Old Adobe 1846-1868 Site of the Old Adobe First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio. Built by Rev. John McCullough (1805-1870). Used by all Protestant faiths. Plastered rock construction (1965)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Antonio River Walk — steps away
  A Depression-era park one level below downtown, built because San Antonio refused to pave its river after the 1921 flood, and designed by an architect the project later fired.
• La Villita Historic Arts Village — steps away
  The little village across the river from the presidio, where Cos surrendered San Antonio in 1835, rebuilt by Depression-era youth crews as a working crafts village.
• The Alamo — 0.2 mi
  Mission San Antonio de Valero before it was a fort: a church its builders never finished, a thirteen-day siege in 1836, and the Army gable of 1850-52 that became its emblem.
• San Fernando Cathedral — 0.3 mi
  The Canary Islanders' parish church on Main Plaza, where Bowie married and Santa Anna raised a red flag, rebuilt in Gothic Revival around the walls of the 1750s church.

More markers nearby

• Groos National Bank — steps away
• Casino Club — steps away
• Site of the Home of Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig Herff — steps away
• The Pajalache Acequia (Ditch) — steps away