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Black plaque № 25141

Austin, TX, United States

First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Austin. In 1853, Missionary Rev. E.B. Crisman formally organized the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in Austin. Members met in a frame building at 7th and Lavaca streets until 1892, when they replaced it with a stone structure. In 1906, a dispute over a church

merger that led all the way to the Texas Supreme Court forced the Cumberland members to move and turn their building over to the Presbyterian USA church. Eight years later,through elder R.M. Castleman

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