Kohrville Community

Kohrville's Black families built more than a school. About ten families founded the community after emancipation, first on Cypress Creek land called the Bottoms, until floods pushed them to higher ground. Their first school, of the 1890s, counted Tom Amos among its first three teachers; residents called it the little school on the hill. Pilgrim Branch Missionary Baptist Church was still active in 2020, and Amos Cemetery was split by a road in 1906. The Farmers Improvement Society hall for canning and quilting is gone. Klein ISD voted on August 26, 1964 to admit Black students to Klein High.

What the plaque says

Kohrville Community Kohrville Community In the 1870s, former slaves from Alabama and Mississippi settled on Cypress Creek, near a store owned by German immigrants Paulin and Agnes Kohrmann. The Kohrville Community, centered on farming, ranching and lumber industries, offered schools for white and black students. When area schools consolidated, Kohrville became part of Klein I.S.D.; African American students attended Kohrville School. In the late 1940s, the school district financed a new school for them. An architect, probably Alfred C. Finn, designed the new schoolhouse, which was later moved to this site. The school district was desegregated in the 1960s. Kohrville and its neighboring communities now are part of the ever-growing Houston suburbs. (2003)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Sam Houston Park and the Heritage Society — 21 mi
  Ten historic buildings gathered in a downtown park below the skyscrapers, among them the 1870 house of the Reverend Jack Yates, built five years after emancipation.
• The Menil Collection — 22 mi
  John and Dominique de Menil's free museum in Montrose: a grey-sided Renzo Piano building among bungalows, holding antiquities, Surrealism and art of Oceania under natural light.
• Rothko Chapel — 22 mi
  An octagonal chapel open to all faiths, built by the de Menils around fourteen dark canvases by Mark Rothko, with Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk standing in the pool outside.
• Buffalo Soldiers National Museum — 23 mi
  A museum in Houston's 1925 Light Guard Armory that tells the service of Black soldiers from the Revolutionary War onward, built from one veteran's thirty years of collecting.

More markers nearby

• Wunderlich Farm — steps away
• Catherine Wunderlich — steps away
• The Klein Community — 1.6 mi
• Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery — 2.0 mi