Some history of Walnut Springs Baptist Church explored.

Walnut Springs Baptist Church is one of the many forgotten churches of Austin and Travis County. Not too much history is known about this church. Sadly hardly any information can be discovered online or offline.

Jim Brewton donated land for a church around 1868. Now this land the church was located on was originally a portion of acreage that belonged to the Jim Brewton farm.

Walnut Springs Baptist Church was established and constructed sometime during the 19th century at the site of Walnut Springs which was somewhere around the area of Cuernavaca Drive. The exact year of when this church was constructed remains unknown. Walnut Springs Baptist Church was possibly built as a single-room frame church.

Walnut Springs Baptist Church had undergone renovation in 1889 and reopened in 1890. Walnut Springs Baptist Church was a small house that was single-room frame church in 1890 and was home to a rural Baptist congregation in Travis County. Interior of this church was considered to be small.

However a split in membership caused service terms to be split. This caused a change in things for the church. Church services would be held in the morning and afternoon. Members of the congregation held classes during services.  

This church building would be used for services until 1892. 1892 is when the Walnut Springs Baptist Church house had burned down into a crisp. It is unclear how the church burned. It could have been antics by local children or a random case of arson. This fire had no documentation or produced leads as to who had started the fire. (Ref: The Defender Yearbook, 1936)

Sadly the church was dissolved later during that same year. Nothing remained of Walnut Springs Baptist Church by 1893.

Walnut Springs Baptist Church was formally located on Cuernavaca Drive in Austin, Texas, US.