McCalla Branch

On 26 September 1937. the McCalla Branch of The Church Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was organized under the direction of Elder Theron W. Borup at the James Wesley Brackner Home on this site. Approximately fifty people were present at this meeting. Twenty years prior to the organization of the McCalla Branch, Home Sunday School was held in this and other homes in this area. Near this site in the Hicks Spring Creek. baptisms were performed beginning in 1920.

The organization of this McCalla Branch of the Southern States Mission was the beginning of the rapid growth of the church In this area.

This monument stands as a reminder of the great faith and sacrifice of those early Saints and as an endearing symbol of the rich heritage that has blessed the lives of their posterity and which will continue for generations to come.

Marker placed in 1987 by the Bessemer First Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in McCalla, Alabama.