Trinity Episcopal Church

The bishop who found Dublin's only Episcopalian had lived widely first. According to the Handbook of Texas, Alexander Charles Garrett was born in County Sligo in 1832 and studied at Trinity College, Dublin. Ordained in 1856, he served a Hampshire parish, then in 1859 went to British Columbia as pastor, doctor, lawyer and teacher among Whites and Indians, in the Handbook's terms. San Francisco and Omaha followed. Chosen in 1874 as bishop of the new missionary district of northern Texas, he founded St. Mary's College in 1889, went blind, and died in Dallas in 1924.

What the plaque says

Trinity Episcopal Church Bishop A. C. Garrett preached in Dublin 1881; in 1884 organized Trinity when he found an Episcopalian, Mrs. John Harris, living here. Church building started in 1889 was first used for services by the Rev. W. W. Patrick in 1890, consecrated in 1897. Frame building had stone veneer added in 1947. (1972)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dublin Bottling Works — 0.5 mi
  The Erath County plant that bottled Dr Pepper with cane sugar from 1891 until a 2012 settlement ended its Dr Pepper license, and that still makes its own sodas the same way.

More markers nearby

• Dublin Rodeo — 0.4 mi
• Early Commercial Building — 0.5 mi
• Davis, Lt. Col. George A., Jr. — 0.5 mi
• Dublin National Bank — 0.5 mi