Pettys Chapel

Navarro County, Texas

A map of where this is in the county. — 3.3 mi south-west of Corsicana · Navarro County

Pettys Chapel sits a mile northeast of Corsicana in central Navarro County. It traces to an 1852 Cumberland Presbyterian camp meeting and takes its name from George V. Petty, who donated the school land in 1870; its first Methodist church was built around 1885. Population was about forty in 1939 and has held near twenty-five since 1990.

Also within two miles. Burying grounds: Petty's Chapel Cemetery, Woodland Cemetery · Markers: Petty's Chapel, Navarro County, Former Site of Fred Douglass - G.W. Jackson School, Rex Ingram.

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From Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entry for Pettys Chapel, Navarro County (Todd Gantt)..