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PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT NEWS RELEASE Media Contact July 23, 2009 Anne Boykin, Heritage Programs 979.764.3491 FOR MEDIA RELEASE ONLY aboykin@cstx.gov Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Celebrates 113 Years with Local Historic Marker On Thursday, July 23, 2009, members of the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, 1216 Detroit, were presented with Historic Building Marker #9
by the City of College Station and its Historic Preservation Committee. The presentation will took place at the beginning of the regular City Council meeting at 7:00 p.m. in Council
Chambers at City Hall. The church congregation first met in a brush arbor on Hope Creek near the Brazos River. In 1910, Rev. G.W. Williams of Benchley became the pastor. The church was
moved to Wellborn where, over the course of several years, the congregation built three church buildings. Eventually the church moved to its present location on Detroit Street in College
Station. Extensive improvement and renovations were completed in 1989. The current pastor is Rev. A.C. Clark III who is following in his father’s footsteps. More history of the Pleasant
Grove Baptist Church can be found on the Project HOLD, historic online library database, website at: http://HOLD.cstx.gov in the Historic Marker files. For more information contact:
Anne Boykin, Heritage Programs, City of College Station Department of Parks and Recreation, 979.764.3491 or aboykin@cstx.gov. # # # Rev. G.W. Williams, Pleasant Grove Baptist Church,
c. 1930, Pleasant Grove c. 1996.