Powers Chapel
and Cemetery

Rosebud, Texas

Falls County

31.10810, -96.89140
On FM 2027

By Barclay Gibson

Driving Directions:

From Rosebud - FM 1048 east about 6.1 mile, then south on FM 2027 about 1.5 mile.

Falls County, Rosebud TX - Powers Chapel

Powers Chapel
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, December 2008

Historical marker:

Powers Chapel

Before 1850 the Rev. Joseph P. Sneed (1804-1881), a Methodist circuit rider, organized the congregation later known as Powers Chapel. Luke Powers and John Cullines donated this land for a log church house built in 1855. It served as a community center and school until a two-story building, with a Masonic lodge upstairs, replaced it in 1870. This structure was completed in 1890. Acreage from other land gifts provided for the cemetery and the tabernacle which took the place of an early brush arbor. Revivals and Memorial Day services are still held here.
1978

Powers Chapel historical marker
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, December 2008

Powers Chapel
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, December 2008

Falls County, Rosebud TX - Powers Chapel & tabernacle

Powers Chapel & tabernacle
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, December 2008

Powers Chapel tabernacle
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, December 2008

Falls County, Rosebud TX - Powers Chapel Cemetery

Powers Chapel Cemetery
Photo courtesy Barclay Gibson, December 2008

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Powers Chapel and Cemetery Rosebud, Texas Falls County

Powers Chapel

Powers Chapel
and Cemetery

Rosebud, Texas

Falls County