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Marker No: 9767

Aluminum 18 x 28 Subject Marker

Geographic: 29.678835,-97.652557

Location: 301 South Walnut Street, Luling

Marker Text: ​Luling's first church building. The Rt. Rev. Robert W.B. Elliot (1840-87), first bishop, missionary district of  western Texas, enroute to his see city, held his original service in the district in a Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio railway passenger car in Luling on Dec. 20, 1847, eight months after town's founding. early in 1875, the Rev. Wallace Carnahan preached here. The Rev. Nelson Ayres arrived as vicar in Feb. 1876 and began to build this chapel with his own hands, conducting first service in it on April 15, 1877. Church was remodeled in 1938 and 1965. (1974)