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Black plaque № 18642

Frisco, TX, United States

Frisco Methodist Church. Area frontier settlers William and Frances Rogers, Peter and Sarah Teel, and Elizabeth Rogers, and the Rev. Joab Biggs, a Methodist circuit-riding minister, organized this congregation in William Rogers' log home in 1848. Known as Bethel Methodist Church, the small rural con

gregation erected its first sanctuary in 1852 on land donated by William Rogers. A school building erected by the church in the early 1870s was converted for use as a sanctuary in 1882. In 1874 Joseph

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