LIBERTY GROVE, TEXAS. Liberty Grove is a small farming community at the junction of Farm Road 1880 and a dirt thoroughfare, on Doctors Creek and the South Sulphur River, south of Cooper in south central Delta County. The area was originally part of the E. R. Crowder Survey. Pioneers had arrived by 1854, when the Liberty Grove School was organized. By 1905 the school enrolled forty-four white students and employed two teachers. In 1936 the community consisted of the school and a cemetery, surrounded by a scattered collection of farms. Cooper Independent School District absorbed the school in 1949. Liberty Grove was shown on a 1964 map as a few scattered homes, and in 1966 its residents numbered twenty-five. The 1984 county highway map showed a sawmill, a grain elevator, and the Liberty Grove Cemetery at the site. The cemetery was still in use in 1988.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. Britt Bousman, Michael B. Collins, and Timothy K. Perttula, Quaternary Geomorphology at Cooper Basin (Austin: Prewitt and Associates, 1988). Paul Garland Hervey, A History of Education in Delta County, Texas (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1951). Wilma Ross and Billie Phillips, Photos and Tales of Delta County (1976).

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