Snow Hill Baptist Church

Snow Hill began as a post office, opened in May 1857 as Buchanan and renamed Snow Hill that October. A school called Pleasant Hill Academy stood beside the church. When the East Line and Red River Railroad began building in 1877, the line ran three miles south, a new town called Cason grew along the tracks, and in 1878 most of Snow Hill's businesses and its post office moved there. By the 1930s only the church and a cemetery were left, and both still stood in 1984. The community sits on the line between Morris and Titus counties.

What the plaque says

Snow Hill Baptist Church Settlers began moving to this area, which they called Snow Hill, by the early 1840s. In 1852, local residents organized this congregation under the direction of the Rev. Samuel Morris. The first sanctuary, which also served as a community schoolhouse, was moved to this site about 1871. The land, including the adjacent cemetery, had been donated to the congregation the previous year by J. W. and Thurza Cason. Since before the Civil War, the Snow Hill Baptist Church has played a vital role in the development of the surrounding rural area. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Daingerfield State Park — 8.8 mi
  A pine-and-hardwood park built in 1935-39 by a white and a Black Civilian Conservation Corps company, with a dammed lake, Bass Lodge and a 2.4-mile loop trail around the water.
• Lake Bob Sandlin State Park — 17 mi
  A 1987 state park on a 9,000-acre reservoir, where a Republic of Texas stockade called Fort Sherman stood in 1838 and the Caddo lived from A.D. 800 to 1860, now with fishing piers, trails and cabins.

More markers nearby

• Caddo Indian Communities in the Cypress Creek Drainage — 3.1 mi
• Site of Chapel Hill College — 6.3 mi
• Daingerfield, C. S. A. — 6.5 mi
• Morris County — 6.5 mi