Summerfield

Summerfield, on Farm Road 49 six miles southwest of Gilmer in western Upshur County, was established toward the end of the nineteenth century. A school was in operation there by the mid-1890s, and in 1896 it had an enrollment of forty-three Black students. In the mid-1930s the predominantly Black community consisted of a church, a school, and a number of houses. After World War II many of the residents moved away, and the school was consolidated with the Gilmer school district. By the mid-1960s all that remained of Summerfield was a few scattered houses.