Trinity United Presbyterian Church

This congregation outgrew its 1896 church within about a quarter century. A county page on Central Presbyterian, the name the plaque says it took in 1921, records that in 1919 the church bought the old Edwin Moore homestead next door and turned the house into Sunday school rooms, with a lot behind the church for parking. Moore had run a general store on the square and later sold real estate; his wife, a daughter of Colonel and Mrs. T. J. Shannon, died in 1917. He died in 1918, and his heirs sold the property.

What the plaque says

Trinity United Presbyterian Church Chartered on Oct. 12, 1851, as a Cumberland society, this was the first Presbyterian congregation in Sherman. The Rev. W. A. Provine was founder and first pastor. One of 4 denominations meeting in the Union church house, 1853-67, this fellowship also worshiped in the Methodist church before members constructed their own building in 1871 at S. Travis and Cherry Street. In 1896 they built an English Gothic edifice at the site. Renamed Central Presbyterian in 1921, this congregation became Trinity United Presbyterian before moving to this location in 1964. (1976)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Eisenhower Birthplace State Historic Site — 8.9 mi
  The small frame house beside the Katy tracks in Denison where Dwight Eisenhower was born in 1890, bought by townspeople in 1946 and given to Texas in 1958.
• Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge — 11 mi
  A 1946 refuge on the Big Mineral Arm of Lake Texoma, laid over land bought for Denison Dam and the site of the vanished railroad town of Hagerman, now a winter stop for geese.
• Eisenhower State Park — 12 mi
  A bluff-top park on Lake Texoma opened in 1958 on land leased from the Corps of Engineers, in the Red River country of Fort Johnson, Colbert's Ferry and the Butterfield stages.
• Sam Rayburn House State Historic Site — 23 mi
  The two-story farmhouse west of Bonham that the longtime Speaker of the House built in 1916 and kept as his home, left as he lived in it and open as a museum since 1975.

More markers nearby

• Kidd-Key College and Music Conservatory — steps away
• Merchants and Planters National Bank — 0.2 mi
• Site of Old Sherman Opera House — 0.2 mi
• Grayson County — 0.2 mi