Historical Marker
First Methodist Church
Historical marker location:
208 Ave D, Alpine, Texas
( 208 Ave D., Alpine)
Marker installed: 1965
Built in 1889 by Alpine residents. Altar portion, original adobe church remains. Here met Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians. Methodist congregaton organized by circuit-riding preacher, Rev. S.G. Kilgore, in 1884.
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1965.
The state of Texas was once an independent country known as the Republic of Texas. It gained independence from Mexico in 1836 and was a separate nation until it was annexed by the United States in 1845.