Warlock (Texas)

Warlock is a town in Marion County in the northeast of the American state Texas .

geography

Warlock is about eight kilometers southeast of the small town of Avinger on the FM 729 road, the nearest settlement is Mims Chapel , two kilometers south on the banks of Lake O'the Pines .

history

Warlock was founded as Ero in 1912 by the Port Bolivar Iron Ore Railway Company . This railway company planned a station for a railway line from the iron ore mines in Cass County to Longview at this point , but it was never completed. The settlement grew nevertheless and in the 1930s was the seat of two churches and a segregated school with six classrooms for over 100 black (African-American) students; most of the residents of the place were former slaves ( freedmen ) and their descendants.

Current data on the population development of Warlock are not available because the settlement is not incorporated and is not recorded as a statistical unit by the United States Census Bureau .

Web links

• Mark Odintz: WARLOCK, TX , in: Handbook of Texas Online (Texas State Historical Association)
• Warlock in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey

Individual evidence

1. ^ Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad: Freedom Colonies . University of Texas Press, Austin TX 2005. p. 195.

Coordinates: 32 ° 50 ′  N , 94 ° 37 ′  W