Ash Creek School District No. 105 began in 1899 in the historically African-American Pelham community. School was held in Wesley Chapel Church until 1908 when a two-story schoolhouse was built near the Pelham Cemetery. The first principal was T.J. . . . — — Map (db m212070) HM
This cemetery has served the African American community of Pelham since the late 19th century established in the years following the Civil War, Pelham was at first organized by free men who had recently received their freedom. Most early residents . . . — — Map (db m217632) HM
First called Forks of the Creek, this town was settled by Black families after 1866. Wesley United Methodist Church, which housed the first school, was organized in 1878 and moved near the present cemetery in 1890. Brown's Chapel A.M.E. Church was . . . — — Map (db m212082) HM
This congregation was established at the Forks of Richland and Ash Creeks in 1877 by the Rev. Austin Lockhart, an itinerant Methodist minister of the West Texas Conference. Initial services were held in a nearby log schoolhouse and later in a church . . . — — Map (db m212081) HM
