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"Under This Tree"
Photographer: Steve Gustafson
Taken: April 3, 2010
Caption: "Under This Tree"
Additional Description: The first Baptist prayer meeting was organized in 1835 by Aunt Massy Sparks Millard. Isaac Reed in 1835 preached the first Baptist sermon. Isaac Reed and Elder R.G. Green organized the first Baptist church in the State of Texas the first Sunday in 1838, the church known today as Old North Church. The First Protestant school in Texas was taught in a one room log house in the shadows of the old oak tree. Remember God alone can make a tree.
Submitted: April 14, 2010, by Steve Gustafson of Lufkin, Texas.
Database Locator Identification Number: p104956
File Size: 1.065 Megabytes

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