First Baptist Church of Blossom
Blossom, Lamar County, Texas
Marker Inscription
Organized in 1873 by the Rev. Sam Anderson. Early services were held in a log schoolhouse, and baptisms conducted in ponds or cotton gin pools. The first permanent sanctuary, built about 1880 on land donated by G. B. Eades, was one large room with a bell tower. The church was a member of the Lamar County Baptist Association. A brick veneer building replaced the old frame church in 1909. The church women paid for the roof by giving pie suppers and selling homemade hominy. The present structure was dedicated in 1967.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
Organized in 1873, this Lamar County congregation began in a borrowed log schoolhouse, with converts baptized in farm ponds and cotton-gin pools. A frame sanctuary on donated land gave way to brick in 1909 — a roof the church women paid for by hosting pie suppers and selling homemade hominy. Successive buildings on the site trace a century of rural faith and neighborly labor.
Why it matters
It captures how frontier congregations were literally built by their members, and how the fundraising kitchens and sewing circles of church women underwrote much of that work.
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Related people
- · Rev. Sam Anderson
- · G. B. Eades
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