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KOHRVILLE,
TEXAS
aka Korville and PilotvilleTexas
Ghost Town
Harris County, Texas Gulf Coast
FM 149 and Spring-Cypress Road
20
miles NW of Houston
Population: Included in Houston's population |
History in a Pecan
Shell
A small African-American community near the above mentioned intersection
was founded by Freedmen from Alabama in the 1870s. The community's economy was
timber-related and the name came from German immigrant Paul Kohrmann, postmaster
in 1881. In the early 1900s another Kohrmann (Agnes Tautenhahn Kohrmann) was operating
the community store. About this time the town had a population of fifty. In 1906
a thirty-one pupil, one-teacher school was open. The post office closed in 1911
and mail was rerouted through Hufsmith. Kohrville managed to keep one business
in operation in 1940 and the former school became a community center. That same
year the town had thirty residents, two churches and two cemeteries. |
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