On U.S. 80 at Jarvis Blvd, in the median on U.S. 80.
In 1904 the Texas Negro Disciples of Christ joined with the Christian Women's Board of Missions (CWBM) to establish a school for Black youth. A campus, consisting of a 456-acre tract donated by Ida and J. J. Jarvis of Fort Worth in 1910 and 182 . . . — — Map (db m293939) HM
On County Road 3431 0.5 miles north of Route 3430.
African American families settled the Jobe Community on the Lemuel G. Powers survey. Brothers Phelix and Sampson Jobe bought several tracts of land from 1881 to 1892, setting aside land for the Jobe Cemetery. The local economy included cattle, . . . — — Map (db m296302) HM
On Farm to Market Road 2869 near Farm to Market Road 3470.
In the 1920s, Black schoolchildren, mostly poor and rural, attended school in old dilapidated buildings with out-of-date textbooks. Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, in collaboration with African American educator Booker . . . — — Map (db m306975) HM
