Salem (Peach Creek)

Bastrop County, TX

Status: Located

Year Established: 1866

Council of Governments: CAPCOG

Public History: An Active Member of St Phillips Baptist Church. Remnants of the Old School House is still present but no longer owned by the Church which sits apprx 100 yards away. Older Members still recall attending classes there and are fearful of it’s removal by the landowner.

“Settled by former slaves, many from the Hill’s Prairie or Hill Plantation area, Peach Creek was near present-day Rosanky (south Bastrop County). This community is rumored to have originally been a Native American settlement.

Salem, two miles northwest of Jeddo in southern Bastrop County, had a one-teacher school for twenty-nine black students in 1881. In 1905 the students numbered fifty-five. The school became part of the Jeddo district when the county instituted a school district system in 1907. St. Philips Church and several houses marked Salem on maps of the county in the 1940s and 2000s, but no population estimates for the community were available.

Previous Structures:

School: Salem

Church: Salem Baptist (1875)”

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Cemetery: St. Phillips Cemetery

Church: St Phillips Baptist/Salem Baptist

School: Salem