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Wylie First Methodist Church

 WYLIE METHODIST CHURCH

THIS CONGREGATION TRACES ITS HISTORY TO THE 1850s,

WHEN SEVERAL METHODIST FAMILIES MOVED TO THIS AREA

OF COLLIN COUNTY. EARLY WORSHIP SERVICES WERE CON-

DUCTED IN THE HOMES OF THE WILLIAM SPURGIN AND

MARK L. MORRIS FAMILIES. THE SPURGIN HOME, LOCATED

ABOUT 2 MILES NORTHWEST OF PRESENT WYLIE, BECAME

KNOWN AS SPURGIN CHAPEL. BY 1873 A ONE-ROOM LOG

BUILDING KNOWN AS LIBERTY CHAPEL WAS CONSTRUCTED

TO SERVE AS BOTH CHURCH AND SCHOOL. IT WAS REPLACED

IN 1897 BY A NEW BUILDING NAMED ST. PAUL METHODIST

EPISCOPAL CHURCH, SOUTH.

SETTLERS IN THE PIONEER COMMUNITY OF NICKLEVILLE

(LATER RENAMED WYLIE) HELD WORSHIP SERVICES IN A

SCHOOLHOUSE BUILT BY WILL H. LEE. BY 1887, LAND WAS

PURCHASED FRO A NEW SANCTUARY AND THE FIRST WYLIE

METHODIST CHURCH WAS BUILT. IT WAS REPLACED BY A

BRICK STRUCTURE AT THIS SITE IN 1924.

SERVED IN ITS EARLY YEARS BY CIRCUIT-RIDING MINISTERS,

INCLUDING THE REV. JACOB B. MINNIS, WYLIE UNITED METH-

ODIST CHURCH HAS BEEN A PART OF COLLIN COUNTY HISTORY

FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY. THE ST. PAUL METHODIST CON-

GREGATION MERGED WITH WYLIE METHODIST IN 1946, AND

TOGETHER THE MEMBERS CONTINUE TO SERVE THE COM-

MUNITY WITH A VARIETY OF PROGRAMS.
Texas Historical marker, 1994

Old building in downtown Wylie

Current building on Country Club Road