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The
congregation which was to become the Wheatland Methodist
Church was organized by Nacogdoches missionaries in
the summer of 1847, and met in a one-room log cabin
called "Wesley Chapel", which was located southeast of
the intersection of Highway 67 and Camp Wisdom Road. The
building had been the meeting place of several different
Christian denominations long before
the Methodists were organized there, and continued to
serve the people of different religious beliefs
from the surrounding countryside.
In 1856, Wesley Chapel was destroyed by a storm which
also devastated the town of Cedar Hill, eight miles to
the south. Although the church building was
reconstructed, the Methodists withdrew from there and
moved to Wheatland where they established the present
Wheatland United Methodist
Church. |
Wesley Chapel |