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McKinney First Baptist Church at Drexel Street

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH

OF McKINNEY

AT DREXEL STREET


THIS CONGREGATION WAS ORGANIZED

IN APRIL 1882 UNDER THE DIRECTION

OF THE REV. A. R. GRIGGS. ORIGINALLY

KNOWN AS THE SECOND BAPTIST

CHURCH, THE FELLOWSHIP CONDUCTED

EARLY WORSHIP SERVICES UNDER A

BRUSH ARBOR. LAND AT THIS SITE

WAS DEEDED TO CHURCH TRUSTEES

IN 1893 BY T. J.  BROWN AND JAMES

W. THROCKMORTON, A FORMER TEXAS

GOVERNOR. THE FIRST SANCTUARY WAS

BUILT HERE THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

ACTIVE IN COMMUNITY SERVICE AND

IN THE ORDINATION OF MINISTERS,

THE CONGREGATION HAS PLAYED A

MAJOR ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT

OF THE AREA FOR OVER A CENTURY.
Texas Historical marker, 1982.