Historical Marker

Leesville Baptist Church

Historical marker location:
6055 FM 1682, Leesville, Texas
( FM 1682, 3/4 mile E of Intersection of SA 80 & FM 1682, Leesville)
Marker installed: 1976

The first meeting place of this congregation, organized in 1875, was destroyed by a storm in 1886. The membership then moved across O'Neal Creek to this site, purchased from pioneer settler N. H. Guinn, and erected this simple frame church in 1887-88. The steeple which once topped the building was removed in 1924. After a disastrous flood in 193, Leesville was relocated along the state highway (3/4 mile west). This church is one of the structures that mark the old townsite.

Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1976.