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Black plaque № 24142

Midway, TX, United States

Antioch Church of Christ. Believed to be among the oldest independent African American churches in Texas, This congregation was established on the Hayes Plantation and named Antioch after a biblical passage. The church moved from the plantation in 1865 and relocated in Midway, where trustees acquire

d property. The church building also served as a school until a bungalow schoolhouse was erected in 1915. In 1917 a second Church of Christ was formed in the area. The two congregations merged in 1924

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