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SUMMERFIELD, TEXAS (Upshur County). Summerfield, on Farm Road 49 six miles southwest of Gilmer in western Upshur County, was established toward the end of the nineteenth century. A school was in operation there by the mid-1890s, and in 1896 it had an enrollment of forty-three black students. In the mid-1930s the predominantly black community consisted of a church, a school, and a number of houses. After World War IIqv many of the residents moved away, and the school was consolidated with the Gilmer school district. By the mid-1960s all that remained of Summerfield was a few scattered houses.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Doyal T. Loyd, A History of Upshur County (Gilmer, Texas: Gilmer Mirror, 1966).

Christopher Long

 

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