Webster Presbyterian Church

Historical marker location:

5003 East NASA Parkway, Seabrook, Texas

( Bay Area Museum -- Clear Lake Park on north side of NASA Rd. 1)

Marker installed: 1989

Growing out of a Union Sunday School established in 1892, Webster Presbyterian Church was organized by farmers who moved to Texas from the Midwest. Early members also included Japanese rice farmers. A small church building erected in 1896 was destroyed in the 1900 storm and was replaced by this structure. After the Manned Spacecraft Center was built nearby in the 1960s, a number of people associated with the space program, including astronauts, joined the congregation and worshiped in this building. Moved here in 1981, the structure is now a museum. (1989).

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