Historical Marker
Bethel Methodist Church
Historical marker location:
Waxahachie, Texas
( From Waxahachie take FM 876 S about 10 mi. to Bethel Rd. Then head W. on Bethel about 1.5 mi. to church.)
Marker installed: 1979
In 1853 Bethel Church was begun under a brush arbor at High Springs. After meeting in a log school building at Greathouse, services were moved in 1860 to a schoolhouse at Bethel on Baker's Branch. The first meetinghouse, built south of the cemetery in 1872, was destroyed in an 1892 storm. The second, located north of the cemetery, was replaced in 1924 by the present sanctuary. The tabernacle, built in 1907, served for camp meetings and God's Acre sales. A parsonage, erected in the early 1900s on E.M. Brack's land at Boz, was moved to this site in 1952.