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McKINNEY METHODIST CHURCH

Historical marker, 1977.

FIRST UNITED METHODIST

CHURCH OF McKINNEY

THIS CONGREGATION ORIGINATED IN

1851 AS A MISSION OF THE DALLAS

CIRCUIT. AT FIRST IT MET IN THE

COUNTY COURTHOUSE, MASONIC HALL,

OR A UNION CHURCH BUILDING. IN

1858, IT BECAME CENTER OF THE

McKINNEY CIRCUIT; ERECTED IN 1876

A BUILDING OF ITS OWN' BECAME AN

INDEPENDENT STATION IN 1879. AS A

RESULT OF EFFORTS BEGUN BY THE

REV. E. L. CASEY, THIS DISTINCTIVE

EDIFICE WAS COMPLETED IN 1901.

THE ORIGINAL STEEPLE CRASHED IN

1954 DURING HIGH WINDS. ALTHOUGH

ALTERED AND ENLARGED, THIS IS THE

CITY'S LAST ORNATE, TURN-OF-THE-

CENTURY CHURCH BUILDING.

McKinney

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