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St. John Missionary Baptist Church

Description: The Oak Grove Baptist Church was founded in Mosier Valley in 1874, and also an elementary school, in 1883. The Mosier Valley school was always in one of the Hurst, Euless, or Bedford districts. Also around that time the community constructed a building that was shared by the school, church, and the Masonic lodge. The congregation of the Church changed its name to St. John Missionary Baptist Church and built its own building in 1911. The church still occupies the same location.
Date: unknown
Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

Watauga Presbyterian Church

Description: Watauga Presbyterian Church, founded as Willow Springs Cumberland Prebyterian Church in the 1850s and reorganized in 1867, then renamed Watauga Presbyterian Church in 1896. Outside the frontier church stands an historical marker naming the courageous families who founded the church when there was nothing but acres of prairie land. Along side of it sits the old farm bell donated by descents of the Keating family, one of the first handful of pioneers to settle in Watauga. On Sundays, the i… more
Date: unknown
Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

Lonesome Dove Baptist Church Cemetery

Description: Granite marker noting founding and location of Lonesome Dove Baptist Church Cemetery. The marker states that the cemetery was founded in 1850 and that the church was started in a home in 1846 and that the church was built in 1847. It lists the founding constituents of the church/cemetery.
Date: unknown
Creator: Harry Husburg
Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room
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