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Hawkins-Holly Lake Ranch, Texas - GAZETTE ARTICLE ONLINE

WOOD COUNTY HISTORY - AS TIME GOES BY

 

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Wood County History

By LOU MALLORY — Chairperson, Wood County Historical Commission

 

More early Wood County communities    11-26-05

 

  Mount Pisgah

Mount Pisgah was a rural community at the intersection of FM 49 and several soil-surfaced roads, two miles west of Pine Mills and nine miles southeast of Quitman in southeastern Wood County.

 

Mount Pisgah Baptist Church went through several name and location changes. A Texas Historical Commission marker for the church has been placed at the final site of the church. The church was founded in 1853 in the neighboring community of Holly Springs as the Holly Springs Baptist Church of Christ. It then moved to nearby Liberty Hill (now Pine Mills) before reaching the Mount Pisgah community in 1860. That year, church members constructed a one-room sanctuary at Mount Pisgah. The church was renamed the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in 1865 or 1866 and it remained in the 1860 structure until the 1930s when it was remodeled.

 

By 1888, George Lindley and Joe Shields were operating the Lindley-Shields sawmill at or near Mount Pisgah. In 1884, the Mount Pisgah school district was established. By 1896, it served 95 students. By 1905, 125 students were taught by three teachers.

 

During the 1930s, the community had a number of dwellings, the school, the church and a cemetery. In 1932, the school had an enrollment of 135 students in 10 grades. There was also a gravel pit near the community.

 

By 1960, Mount Pisgah had the church, two cemeteries, and a few widely scattered dwellings along FM 49. By 1988, all that remained at the site was the church and one cemetery.

 

Concord

Concord is on FM 778, two miles northwest of Hainesville and five and one-half miles southeast of Quitman in south central Wood County.

 

Concord was probably settled in the 1870s and, by the early 1880s, it had a one-teacher school known as the Concord Academy.

 

By 1891, the area had a church, called Hubbard’s Chapel Baptist Church, named for the settler Hubbard Moseley (or Mosley), who donated land to the church.

 

In 1896, 76 white students and 38 black students were taught by two teachers in one-room schools. By 1932, 77 white students attended classes in nine grades taught by three teachers, and 45 black students attended classes in seven grades taught by one teacher.

 

A few years later, the Concord schools closed and the community had just the church and a number of scattered dwellings. By 1960, a single dwelling and the church remained at the site. By the late 1970s, several more dwellings were noted in this vicinity.

 

The above information in available at The Handbook of Texas Online, a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association.

 

 

 

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