Black plaque № 24186

Grapeland, TX, United States

Oak Grove Baptist Church. Organized in 1848 as Friendship Baptist Church, this congregation was housed in a small wooden structure on this site. The people called the Rev. S. F. Wall in 1868. Minutes from the 1875 meeting of the Neches River Baptist Association reveal that a Sunday School program wa

s in operation here by that time. Renamed Grapevine Baptist Church in 1881, and Oak Grove Baptist Church in 1888, the congregation included 89 members in 1902. Known as Oak Grove Missionary Baptist Ch

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