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SHILOH, TEXAS (Freestone County). Shiloh is on Farm Road 1449 one mile north of Kirvin in northwest Freestone County. It had a school by 1891. In the 1930s Shiloh had a few scattered dwellings, and in the 1960s a church and a few dwellings were located there. The church was still standing in the late 1980s.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Freestone County Historical Commission, History of Freestone County, Texas (Fairfield, Texas, 1978). Freestone County Historical Commission, History of Freestone County, Texas (Fairfield, Texas, 1978).

Chris Cravens

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