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Marker No: 8562

Medallion & Plate (Plate missing) 

Texas Historic Landmark

Geographic: 30.484831,-95.984962

Location: ​300 Fanthorp Avenue, Anderson

Marker Text: ​Organized November 11, 1844 Baptist General Convention of Texas organized here in 1848. Twenty-three of Texas thirty-four Baptist churches were represented. Present building was constructed with native rock by slave labor and finished in 1855. Burned February 6, 1955, and was restored, using original walls, and redecorated September 18, 1955. First Texas Baptist Woman's Missionary Society organized here in 1858. Sign and plaque given in memory of Carl H. and Effie Smith Bell. (1965)