This is the third building at the ranch to serve the first Protestant congregation in Hidalgo County, which included an enclave of freed slaves. Still maintained as a chapel by the descendants of Martin Jackson, who donated the land in 1884, the 20 × 35–foot, front-gabled, board-and-batten Methodist chapel sits next to the Jackson family cemetery.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Jackson Ranch Chapel", [Alamo, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-HL7.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 306-306.
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