JERUSALEM, TX (BRAZORIA COUNTY)
JERUSALEM, TEXAS (Brazoria County). Jerusalem is north of Farm Road 2611 sixteen miles southwest of Angleton in southwestern Brazoria County. In 1896 it had a one-teacher school with seventy-two black students. The 1936 county highway map showed the school and scattered dwellings at the townsite; a 1972 map showed a school, a church, and a cemetery there. In 2000 county highway maps showed the cemetery.
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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.
Diana J. Kleiner, "JERUSALEM, TX (BRAZORIA COUNTY)," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrjsx), accessed October 30, 2014. Uploaded on June 15, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.
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