Prairie View United Methodist Church Early members of the Prairie View United Methodist Church of the Nogalus Prairie area began holding services at this site in the early 1880s. Richard Willborn built their first sanctuary in 1883 on land owned by Thomas A. Nelms. He sold the land in 1887, but reserved two acres for the church. Local Baptists also used the site; the two congregations built brush arbors for revivals, held baptisms in nearby creeks and ponds, and had Sunday lunches at tables under pine trees. In 1912, church members donated cows to sell for lumber, which they used for a new building. The congregation built its current church in 1956. It remains a center for the community.