SAN MARCOS – The city of San Marcos will receive $150,000 in grant funding that will go toward preserving the Historic First Baptist Church.

The announcement was made on the Downtown San Marcos Facebook page on Monday.

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The city of San Marcos was selected as one of 10 cities across the nation to receive grant money for a historic building. According to oral accounts, the original location of the church was burned to the ground by the KKK. It was rebuilt around the corner in 1908. Congregation members Wallace Cheatham and Robert Bratton have seen the church's phases firsthand.

The church has been vacant since 1986 after the congregation moved into a new building. Members of the Calaboose Museum across the street have raised around $6,000 for restoration. 

Repairs are scheduled to begin no later than July 1 of next summer and restoration would take one year.