Editing Parker, Texas (section)

==History==
The first settlers arrived in the area that is now Parker in the early 1840s. The town was named after William C. Parker, the son of the area's first known settler, John C. Parker. It was incorporated as a city on March 22, 1969.<ref name="City of Parker">{{cite web|title=City History|url=http://www.parkertexas.us/index.aspx?nid=242|access-date=6 June 2012}}</ref>

Corinth Presbyterian Church was founded in Parker in 1846, with the current sanctuary built in 1923, and is thought to be the oldest continuing congregation in Collin County.<ref name="Corinth Presbyterian Church">{{cite web|title=National Historic Cemetery Info|url=http://www.corinthpresbyterian.org/pdf/TXhistoric_pictorial.pdf|access-date=6 June 2012}}</ref>