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Black plaque № 14654

Plano, TX, United States

First Baptist Church of Plano. This congregation, established as the Spring Creek Baptist Church in 1852, built its first sanctuary on Spring Creek about two miles south of here of land owned by Jacob Routh. Formally organized in 1853, the congregation joined several area churches in 1854 to form th

e Elm Fork Baptist Association. Plano's emergence after the railroad reached town in 1872 prompted Spring Creek to change its name to Plano Baptist Church and build a new sanctuary here in 1875. Plano

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