CENTER POINT, TEXAS, CAMP COUNTY 

 

 

 

Dormitory, workshop, main building. Camp County Training School September,1919

 

 

Location On Map

1910 Soil map, Texas, Camp County
Description: Map displays soil types along with creeks, lakes, towns, schools, churches, gins, mills, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and soil profiles.

1939 General Highway Map, Franklin County, Morris County, Titus County, Camp County

1961 General Highway Map, Franklin County, Morris County, Titus County, Camp County

1996 Camp County "Courtesy of the University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin."

 

Handbook of Texas Online articles

CASH, CHRISTINE BENTON
CENTER POINT, TEXAS
 

 

Historical Marker Texts

Center Point Community 
In 1865 black Freedmen began this community. The Center Point Baptist Church was organized in 1873. The Industrial Union was chartered in 1889 to aid settlers in buying farms and building homes. A cooperative managed a brick kiln, sawmill and cotton gin. Under the leadership of Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Cash, the first principals, Center Point School became an important vocational facility. Students erected most of the structures on the 14-acre campus and there was a cooperative boarding plan. The school was consolidated with Pittsburg in 1950.
 
 
Center Point School

 Began as a Freedmen's community about 1865-70. The Willie Johnson family were the first settlers and were soon joined by other families. In 1899 G. W. Goulsby opened a one-room school, the first in the settlement; Pete Griffin was the first teacher. In 1916 a new five-room school was built. In later years campus additions, partly funded by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, included a teacherage, library, dormitories, cafeteria, and gymnasium. Students maintained a farm and garden and operated a cannery. Center Point School was closed in 1952.

 

Image: Papers of Jackson Davis, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library  

 

 

 

 

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