The Methodist Episcopal Church South of Sherman was established in 1859 with the Rev. J. M. Binkley as pastor.  The first building, a frame structure, was erected in 1860 in the 300 block of South Travis Street.  The building burned in 1885.  For four years the congregation met in the city opera house.  A brick building was erected at the original location and was occupied in 1889. The brick church building was used until 1910.  At this time a new and larger domed structure was erected at North Travis and Mulberry Streets.  The Travis Methodist Church served the community for the next forty-four years.  

In 1955, the present structure was erected on Mulberry and Elm Streets on property that once belonged to the Kidd-Key College which was a Methodist school. The church was named First Methodist Church.  In 1968, it became the First United Methodist Church.

March 22, 2013

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