Wallis Methodist Church

The Wallis Methodists kept their centennial in 1993 in a town the Handbook of Texas follows mostly by its counts. Wallis had an estimated 631 people in 1904 and 800 in 1925, and its school enrolled 100 pupils by 1918. It had thirty-nine businesses in 1943, slipped to about 690 people by 1949, then grew to 1,075 by 1966. By 1975 it had two schools, eight churches, a bank, a public library and a weekly paper, the Wallis News Review. The 1991 estimate was 1,411 people, though only fifteen rated businesses remained.

What the plaque says

Wallis Methodist Church Land was deeded in 1890 by M.L.H. Harry to church trustees F.D. Brant, D.H. Harris, N.P. Ward, W.T. Brown, and M.L.H. Harry for the formation of a Methodist church in Wallis. The church considers 1893, when a loan was taken out for a new sanctuary as its founding date. The first pastor was A.S. Blackwood who served from 1891 to 1893. The Wallis United Methodist Church celebrated its 100th anniversary in October 1993. The congregation supports mission work, is active in many programs, and continues to serve as an integral part of the Wallis community. (1996)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• San Felipe de Austin State Historic Site — 12 mi
  Stephen F. Austin's colonial capital on a Brazos bluff, the town of the Consultation and the first Texas newspapers, burned by its own garrison in the Runaway Scrape of 1836.
• Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife Refuge — 13 mi
  Ten thousand acres of native coastal prairie northeast of Eagle Lake, kept for a critically endangered grouse, many of whose birds are hatched in captivity and released here.

More markers nearby

• Wallis State Bank — 0.3 mi
• St. Paul Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi
• Guardian Angel Catholic Church — 1.0 mi
• William Henry and Lydia Ann English Guyler — 1.0 mi