Good Hope

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Good Hope was on Doe Branch at the intersection of Good Hope Road and Prosper Road, between Farm Road 1385 and the Collin county line fifteen miles east of Denton in eastern Denton County. The original settlers, from Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, Arkansas, and Wisconsin, included the families of Jacob and Lewis Rue, Ben Armstrong, Pete Hucherson, and Rev. W. P. Rennison, who arrived in 1854 and settled on the Ben Rue survey at the site, then called Rue Settlement. Ben Rue sold his land before he moved to Fannin County but saved four acres, which he donated for a church and school. The Cumberland Presbyterian church was founded in Rue Settlement about 1854 and was active until 1925. Good Hope Baptist Church was established in 1875 and used on alternate Sundays for Presbyterian and Baptist services. The community thereafter was called Good Hope. In 1878, when a storm destroyed the building, the church was moved to Parvin, less than a mile away. The school, which remained in the community when the churches moved to outlying areas in 1878, was usually known as Good Hope but was also called Good Hope Parvin or Parvin. It received funds from the state as a public school in 1878. In 1935 the Good Hope school had forty-seven students and three teachers, but in 1949 it was disbanded when schools in the area were consolidated under the guidelines of the school consolidation law. Burials had taken place in Good Hope Cemetery by at least 1870 and probably as early as the 1850s. In order to preserve this early cemetery the Good Hope Cemetery Association was founded in 1903. In 1904 Ben Rue officially gave the land to the association, and a state historical marker was erected at the cemetery in 1986. The cemetery and burial association remained active in 2002.

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Lisa C. Maxwell | © TSHA

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Adapted from the official Handbook of Texas, a state encyclopedia developed by Texas State Historical Association (TSHA). It is an authoritative source of trusted historical records.

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Good Hope is part of or belongs to the following places:

Currently Exists

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Place type

Good Hope is classified as a Town

Associated Names

  • (Parvin)

Location

Latitude: 33.24956150
Longitude: -96.87055760

Has Post Office

No

Is Incorporated

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