Mims Chapel (Panola County)

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Mims Chapel , Mims for short , is a dispersed settlement in Panola County in the east of the American state of Texas . It is located a few miles west of the village of Elysian Fields on the FM 1186 road.

history

The settlement of Mims Chapel was probably founded by former slaves ( freedmen ) after the end of the American Civil War and grew around a church that gave the place its name. After 1890 a segregated school for black (Afro-American) children can be found here. The population development reached its peak in the 1930s, at which time a second church existed here. In the following years, the place lost a large part of its population due to emigration. Current data on the population development of Mims Chapel are not available because the settlement is not incorporated and is not recorded as a statistical unit by the United States Census Bureau . The Handbook of Texas Online the Texas State Historical Association indicates that the place in the 1990s consisted only of a few scattered houses; Since its entry in the topographical database of the United States Geological Survey in 1979, Mims Chapel is not even listed as a settlement there, but only as a church.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad: Freedom Colonies . University of Texas Press, Austin TX 2005. p. 196.

Coordinates: 32 ° 21 ′  N , 94 ° 14 ′  W