Black plaque № 23842

Temple, TX, United States

First Christian Church of Temple. When the Santa Fe Railroad organized Temple in 1880, it offered lots to any church that would erect a building on the site. In 1888 a group of Christian called an evangelist, the Rev. W. S. Lockhart, in an effort to organize a congregation. Within a year, they had s

ecured a site for a church building between Central Avenue and Avenue A and had called the Rev. C. H. Strawn as their first pastor. The Rev. Mr. Strawn organized such church groups as the official chu

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