Eastland Baptist Church

(now the 16th Street Baptist Church)

The Eastland Baptist Church was an important black church in Honey Grove that is now called the 16th Street Baptist Church.  It was reportedly the church that many of the black educators attended.  It is the church shown on the 1921 Sanborn map below.

​The photos below are from the church in the 1950s.  The new 16th Street church building is also below.

An article in the March 29, 1957 Honey Grove Signal-Citizen states:

Honey Grove Negro Congregation to Build New Church

"The members of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church of Honey Grove, formerly known as the Eastland Baptist Church plans to begin tearing down the present building which was erected some 82 years ago, in the immediate future.

The new church will be on the same site."

This means that the Eastland Baptist Church building was originally built in 1875.