Fouke, Texas

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Fouke, Texas
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 32°37′40″N95°16′27″W / 32.62778°N 95.27417°W / 32.62778; -95.27417
Country United States
State Texas
County Wood
Elevation
469 ft (143 m)
Time zone UTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s) 430 & 903
GNIS feature ID1378318 [1]

Fouke is an unincorporated community in Wood County, located in the U.S. state of Texas. [1] According to the Handbook of Texas, Fouke had a population of 30 in 2000.

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History

A settlement known as Center is thought to have been in the county's southernmost region as early as 1866. Somewhere around 1873, the hamlet's residents erected a log structure that served as their church, lodge, and communal gathering place. For $6, a two-acre plot of land was purchased for a Methodist Episcopal Church in 1879, and eventually, a frame structure was built there. The largely African-American community never had a post office. Sometime about 1885, when George W. Fouke's lumber firm erected a sizable sawmill nearby, the name was changed to Fouke. At the confluence of multiple bladed earth roads, two miles north of U.S. Highway 80, Fouke had a number of residences by the 1930s. There were two churches and a business in the area. Those same two churches and a few widely dispersed homes were in the town by 1960. A dam on Little Sandy Creek created Lake Hawkins sometime after 1960, and by 1981, a number of new homes had sprung up in the community, which supported two churches, two shops, and a community center. The population was thirty in 2000. [2]

Geography

Fouke is located on Farm to Market Road 2869, 3 mi (4.8 km) northeast of Crow and less than a mile west of Lake Hawkins in southeastern Wood County. [2]

Education

The first school in Fouke took place in a log building. Only Black children were enrolled in the school, and the church pastor taught classes there. With a small number of White children in the area, they attended subscription schools in either Redland or Hawkins. It then became a school district for blacks in 1884, but there was no account of a school in 1896. There were 111 Black students and 17 White students at the school in 1932. [2] Today, Fouke is served by the Hawkins Independent School District.

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References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fouke, Texas
  2. 1 2 3 Jenkins, Rachel. "Fouke, TX". tshaonline.org. Retrieved April 21, 2023.
  3. ↑ Jones, Charisse (July 12, 2020). "For faces behind Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben's and Cream of Wheat, life transcended stereotype". USA Today. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
  4. ↑ Hollister, Stacy (October 2002). "Texas History 101: The northeast town of Hawkins remembers one of its small-town girls". Texas Monthly. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
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