Hard Times: A Pattison Preacher in the Great Depression
We are very pleased to announce our August 2011 PAHS speaker, William "Bill" Carson Hardt. He has a wonderful presentation about the circuit preacher from the 1930's who maintained the congregations of the Fulshear, Brookshire and Pattison Methodist Churches. He is a published author on Texas history and currently volunteers with numerous historical affiliates: President - Texas United Methodist Historical Society, Chair - Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church Commission on Archives and History, Vice-Chair - Austin County Historical Commission and Tour Guide Bellville Historical Society.
Bill's Texas Methodist History Blog
COMPLETE DETAILS:
Pattison Area Heritage Society - "Guest Event"
Speaker : Bill Hardt
Date: Monday Evening - August 29 , 2011
Time: Event starts at 7:00 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM for visiting and networking
Location: Pattison Area Volunteer Fire Department
Please share this meeting information and invite anyone you know that would like to hear about this exciting topic of Texas History pertinent to this community's local area heritage.
Also, check out these photographs that Bill Hardt has shared with the PAHS.
Brookshire Church as it was in the 1930s.
Below are also images (interior and exterior) of the Northern German church at Pattison while it was still at Phillipsburg (the building was moved from Phillipsburg to Pattison some time after the Phillipsburg church closed in 1918) The building was later moved from Pattison and is still in use by the Harper UMC in Monaville.


