ELAM SPRINGS, TEXAS. Elam Springs (Elam Spring), off Farm Road 1795 ten miles southwest of Gilmer in western Upshur County, was settled before 1900. By that year it had a school, which in 1906 had an enrollment of forty-nine black students. In the mid-1930s the community had a church and number of houses, and in the mid-1960s it had a church, a cemetery, and a few widely scattered houses. In 2000 the population was fifty.
- The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation
for this article.
-
Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. ","
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/EE/hretg.html (accessed November 22, 2009).
(NOTE: "s.v." stands for sub verbo, "under the word.")
The Handbook of Texas Online is a project of the Texas State Historical Association (http://www.tshaonline.org).
Copyright ©, The Texas State Historical Association, 1997-2002
Last Updated:
November 11, 2009
Please send us your comments.