Six Mile Presbyterian Church

Adolf Chlumsky, one of the traveling ministers who preached here, was the leading organizer of Czech Protestants in Texas. Most Czech immigrants had been Catholics at home, but a significant minority were Protestant, and their independent congregations, the first at Wesley in 1864, were joined in 1903 chiefly through Chlumsky's efforts into the denomination called the Unity of the Brethren. Its members saw it as a continuation of the Czech religious movement of that name, which the Austrians had suppressed in the seventeenth century.

What the plaque says

Six Mile Presbyterian Church Worship services in the community that became known as Six Mile began as early as 1894, when traveling ministers such as the Rev. Anton Motycka and the Rev. Adolf Chlumsky conducted religious services once a month in the local schoolhouse. In 1990 the Rev. Mr. Chlumsky led the first area confirmation classes, and Presbyterian services began in 1909. The Rev. H. E. Beseda, Sr., formally organized the Czech Presbyterian church in 1911. A church building, erected on the site in 1923 and destroyed by a hurricane in 1942, was replaced in 1943. Most services were conducted in Czech until 1956. The church remains an active congregation central to life in the Six Mile Community. (1998)

Where it stands

More markers nearby

• Six Mile Cemetery — steps away
• Six Mile-Royal Community — 0.5 mi
• Don Martin De Leon — 1.8 mi
• Lavaca Lodge No. 36, A.F. & A.M. — 2.9 mi