Historical Marker
Damascus Missionary Baptist Church
Historical marker location:
Corrigan, Texas
( 7 mi. NE of Corrigan on FM 1987)
Marker installed: 1967
Organized 1863. First pastor, Brother J. R. Dowell. Original building was of logs; had split log benches on peg legs. Replaced by frame building, 1892; the present church, 1950.
A charter member of the Angelina Missionary Baptist Association.