SHILOH, TEXAS (Freestone County). Shiloh is on Farm Road 489 four miles west of Butler in southwest Freestone County. The community had a church and a school that had eighty-two black students by 1893. In the 1930s the community had a school, a church, and a few scattered dwellings, and in the 1960s a church, a cemetery, and a few dwellings were there. The church still remained in the late 1980s.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Freestone County Historical Commission, History of Freestone County, Texas (Fairfield, Texas, 1978).
- 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/SS/hrsce.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.