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Wolfe City's Ebenezer Baptist Church Receives 100th Hunt County Historical Marker

KETR | By John Mark Dempsey
Published September 9, 2020 at 6:00 AM CDT
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Carol Taylor, Hunt County Historical Commission chairman, says the Ebenezer Baptist Churchof Wolfe City recently received the 100th historical marker presented in Hunt County.  The predominantly-black church was founded in 1889 by a committee made up of men and woman, and blacks and whites, very unsual for the time.

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John Mark Dempsey
John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.
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