Jerusalem

Brazoria County, TX

Status: Located

Year Established: Unknown

Council of Governments: H-GAC

Public History: https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrjsx

Community History: 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.

Cemetery: Jerusalem Baptist

Church: Jerusalem Baptist Church

School: Jerusalem School