Freestone County, Texas
Communities


Old Ghost Towns - Never had a post office:




Shiloah #1 (west of Butler)

   The Shiloah community was south of Crossroads near Butler. A 1964 U.S. 
Geological Survey map of the Butler Quadrangle shows Shiloh east of Fairfield, 
down Highway 84, turn south on 489 at Red Lake, going past the spillway of
modern Burleson Lake. Continue another mile or more down 489. On left side.
   

School:
  Shiloah school 
     had 45 African American kids in 1887
     had 35 African American students in the 1891-2 schoolyear.
     had 39 African American pupils in the 1893-4 schoolyear.

Church:
  Shiloh Baptist Church 
   
Cemetery:
  Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery (started between 1947 and 1948, but earlier 
     stones exist that were moved from Gorman Cemetery)
  Gorman Cemetery (slave cemetery later abandoned in favor of Shiloh)

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Known Former Residents:

Brown, Ed C.
Crenshaw, Robert
Gorman, Mr.
Hemphill, Harvey
Hunt, Leo H. & Georgia 
Malone, Allen
Malone, Edward
Malone, John Sr.
McClain, Rev J. C.
Richard, Robert 
Tippens, George W. & Judith
Willis, Johnnie
Willis, Loyd