​Eddy Methodist Church

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Marker No: 1386

Aluminum 27 x 42 Subject Marker

Geographic: 31.296833, -97.256311

Location: 404 West 3rd Street, Eddy

Marker Text: ​    In 1868 a congregation of Methodists living in the Bell and McLennan county region between Elm and Bull Hide Creeks erected a simple sanctuary at the site of a nearby cedar log toll bridge. The Rev. James Peeler, a Waco district Methodist Circuit preacher, served the Cedar Bridge Church congregation in 1873. 
     The community of Eddy, known as Marvin when first settled about 1880, moved toward the railroad tracks extended through this area by the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad in 1882. That year a building known as Sage Chapel was relocated from local rancher Charles Dunning's Land to Eddy for use by the Methodist and Baptist Congregation. Eddy Methodist erected a new church building at this site in 1892. 
      This sanctuary, built in 1912 through the efforts of the Rev. S.B. Knowles, is a good example of an Akron plan Church. It features elaborate German-made stained glass windows, a stamped metal ceiling, and Prairie School style influences such as overhanging eaves with brackets, a hipped roof, and tower. 
      Bruceville and Eddy Methodist Churches merged to form the Bruceville-Eddy United Methodist Church in 1983. Renovation of the sanctuary in 1993 included placement of the Bruceville Church Bell in the Belfry. (1993)