| Marker Number |
1759 |
| Atlas Number |
5009001759 |
| Marker Title |
First Methodist Church of Holliday |
| Index Entry |
First Methodist Church of Holliday |
| Address |
123 Myrtle St. |
| City |
Holliday |
| County |
Archer |
| UTM Zone |
14 |
| UTM Easting |
289152 |
| UTM Northing |
3455753 |
| Subject Codes |
churches; Methodist (Methodist Episcopal and United Methodist) denomination |
| Marker Year |
1986 |
| Recorded Texas Historic Landmark |
No |
| Marker Location |
123 Myrtle Street, front lawn of First United Methodist Church facing Myrtle St. |
| Private Property |
|
| Marker Condition |
|
| Marker Size |
18" x 28" |
| Marker Text |
Although records of the congregation date to 1892, Methodist circuit-riding ministers were serving this area as early as 1889. R. P. McElwreath was the first pastor of the Holliday church. Ten acres of land were deeded to the church, and the plot was known as the Holliday Campground. The first church building was erected about 1900, largely due to the efforts of church member James Madison Taylor (1836-1921). The wooden frame church was razed in the 1920s, and a new brick structure was built in 1927 during the pastorate of S.M. Dunham. Texas Sesquicentennial 1836-1986. |
