Exploring the extensive history of Gregg Church in Manor, Texas. The Old Rock Church on Gregg Lane explored.

Gregg Church in Manor, Texas is of the many long forgotten religious institutions and schools of Austin/Travis County that have faded away with time and from people's memories. Gregg Church was one of the many Travis County rural churches. To many Travis County natives, the Gregg Church was also known as the Old Rock Church (Rock Church). 

 

 
In 1870, William Stiles donated one acre of land for a church and school to be built on at the present location of 5300 Gregg Lane, Manor, Texas, US 78653. The church building was located northwest of Manor. The church building was constructed of rock and was called Rock Church (Old Rock Church). Walls of the old rock building were never plastered or renovated. William Stiles was both the architect and builder of the Gregg Church. The Gregg Church opened in 1871.

 

Sunday Church services were being held by the early 1900’s. Gregg Church became known as the Rock Church in 1900. A small cemetery called the Gregg School Cemetery was located close nearby. In 1910 the rock building was torn down and a newly built wooden frame building was erected on the site of the former rock building. Only the chimney erected out of rock and brick remained from the rock building. The 1910 wooden frame building was built by Westley Gustafson. T. F. Sylvester was a trustee for this church. 

Gregg Church was demolished in 1965. All that remained of the Gregg Church was a pile of rocks ashes from the demolished church building resembling a pile of dirt often found at construction sites.

1965 is when land for the former Gregg Church property, Gregg School property, and the Gregg School Cemetery were deeded and sold to a man named Christian Buck who lived on the land until his death. In 1965, Christian Buck conveted the land into a ranch after paperwork was finalized. Christian Buck bought the land from Manor ISD, Pflugerville ISD, and Travis County.

 

Christian Buck had deeded his land on an estate titled Christian Buck Estate to Jack W Gullahorn and Patricia H Gullahorn on the date of 11/24/1982. The Christian Buck Estate deeded Jack W Gullahorn and Patricia H Gullahorn the former Gregg School land property, Old Rock Church (Gregg Church), and Gregg School Cemetery. Nothing was left of any structures at Gregg Cemetery or Gregg School when it was purchased by the Gullahorns in 1982. The church had been long gone by the decade of the 1980s. Jack W Gullahorn has since converted the land into a ranch.

Gregg Church was located at 5300 Gregg Lane, Manor, Texas, US 78653.