Divide

Divide, on Farm Road 3389 ten miles southwest of the community of Sulphur Springs in southwestern Hopkins County, first formed around 1880, when a post office was established there with James Webster as postmaster. By 1885 the town had a steam gristmill, two cotton gins, three churches, a district school, and a population of 130. By 1890 its population had dropped to twenty-five, and in 1899 the post office closed. A school was in operation there around 1900, and a Baptist church was established in 1905, but by the mid-1930s the community no longer appeared on highway maps. In the 1960s Divide had a church and a number of scattered dwellings. In the late 1980s the community still had a church.

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Christopher Long | © TSHA

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Belongs to

Divide is part of or belongs to the following places:

Currently Exists

No

Place type

Divide is classified as a Town

Location

Latitude: 33.04872720
Longitude: -95.71301550

Has Post Office

No

Is Incorporated

No