Historical Marker
Mobeetie First Baptist Church
Historical marker location:
1st and Hoover St., Mobeetie, Texas
( At intersection of 1st & Hoover Streets-Mobeetie)
Marker installed: 1983
Soon after Wheeler County was organized in 1879, a Union church was formed at Old Mobeetie (2 miles south). On April 2, 1894, the 13 Baptist members of the fellowship organized this church. Services were held in public buildings until 1919, when a sanctuary was built. After, the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railroad bypassed Old Mobeetie, the town declined, and the church building was moved here in 1942. Through its heritage of service to two communities, Old and New Mobeetie, the church has played a major role in the development of the surrounding area. (1983).