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UNION HOPE CHURCH, TEXAS. Union Hope Church is a rural church and school community in southeastern Anderson County eleven miles southeast of Palestine on Farm Road 1817. In the 1930s the site had a number of dwellings, a factory, a church, and a black school. The school, which was part of the Day school district, served fifty-two pupils in 1932. A white school was located two miles to the west in the Days Chapel community. In 1985 Union Hope Church community still had a school, a church, and several scattered dwellings. Union Hope Cemetery was still shown on county maps in 2000.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Thomas Paul Jones, The Reorganization of the Public Schools of Anderson County, Texas (M.Ed. thesis, University of Texas, 1934).

Mark Odintz

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