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Landmark Commission begins historic designation process for Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church at 14000 Preston Road
Summary
Commissioners voted to initiate the historic designation process for Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, a congregation that petitioners say dates to 1864 and occupies a site tied to a freedmen’s town called Alpha.
The Dallas Landmark Commission voted to initiate the process to consider landmark designation for Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church at 14000 Preston Road.
Petitioners, including church members and local historians, presented documentary material and testimony noting Mount Pisgah’s long history in the community, its ties to a freedmen’s settlement known as Alpha, and a local cemetery where founding members are interred. Commissioners approved…
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