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Black plaque № 14759

Winters, TX, United States

First Methodist Church of Winters. Site of the first church building at Winters and Old St. Methodist church site in Runnels County. The congregation was organized in 1891, under George D. Wilson, pastor. For eight years, they shared the local school building with other denominations. The first chur

ch building -- a frame structure -- was erected on this site in 1899 under the pastorate of John Wesley Bowden, pioneer circuit rider. In 1911 a large tabernacle, also frame, was built near the first

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