The New Hope Community - New Hope, TX - Signs of History on Waymarking.com

The sign says:

The area's first settler was Nathan Warren, a native of Georgia, who came to the area in 1842 and homesteaded his land grant in what would become the New Hope Community.

Twenty years later, in 1862, an influx of planters from Louisiana arrived and it is said that they named the area New Hope because they hoped to regain their fortunes here. In the 1880's a summer school called The Bluejack Academy was established and in 1906 the one-teacher school had 47 students.

By 1917 a Baptist Church, founded in 1864 in Greer's Neighborhood, known later as Golden Rule, established itself as the New Hope Baptist Church in the north part of the community.

By 1932 the school enrollment was 126 white students with four teachers and 33 black students with one teacher.

The Community never had its own post office but was on the rural route from the Mineola Post Office. Rock Falls Lake, a private lake in the area in the mid-twentieth century was the site of lake houses for Mineola and the other nearby residents but today the homes surrounding the lake are largely owned and occupied by full-time residents.

In 2004 the New Hope Cemetery was designated a Texas Historical Cemetery.

Wood County Historical Commission

Group that erected the marker: Wood County Historical Commission URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link] Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary: 3855 FM 1801 Mineola, TX USA 75773

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