United Presbyterian Church of Adamsville

The congregation began in a denomination with deep Texas roots. Cumberland Presbyterians started work in Texas when Sumner Bacon arrived in 1829, organized the first Cumberland presbytery in 1837 and in 1840 ordained Richard Overton Watkins, the first Protestant minister ordained in Texas. Their synod was formed at Nacogdoches in 1843, and their circuit preachers spread congregations across the state. In 1906 most Texas Cumberland congregations merged into the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., which in 1958 joined the United Presbyterian Church in North America to form the United Presbyterian Church.

What the plaque says

United Presbyterian Church of Adamsville In late 1880, The Rev. McCall Smith and 19 charter members met in the home of L. Jasper and Mary Ann Townsen. They organized the Pleasant Valley Cumberland Presbyterian Church and held services in a schoolhouse or under a brush arbor. In 1903 "the tabernacle" was erected on camp grounds west of Adamsville. This meetinghouse was built in 1917 and the tabernacle was moved here in 1946 and used for several years. After a 1958 merger, this congregation became part of the United Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (1979)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Hancock Springs Park — 17 mi
  Lampasas's city park on Sulphur Creek, with a spring-fed swimming pool that holds about 69 degrees all year, the walls of the old bathhouse and a golf course.
• Colorado Bend State Park — 26 mi
  Old ranch country on the Colorado above Lake Buchanan, where a spring-fed creek drops 70 feet over fern-covered travertine at Gorman Falls.

More markers nearby

• Adamsville — steps away
• Townsen's Mill — 1.1 mi
• Birthplace of Stanley Walker — 5.2 mi
• School Creek Baptist Church — 6.4 mi