Kohrville, Texas

Kohrville, also named Korville and Pilotville, is an unincorporated community in Harris County, Texas.

History of the Kohrville Community and the Kohrville School By Diana Lynn Severance, Ph.D.

Former slaves who came to this area from Alabama and Mississippi after the Civil War settled the community that came to be known as Kohrville. At first they settled in an area west of Houston originally called Piney Points, located near the present intersection of Westheimer and Jeanetta (not the same as Piney Point Village). On March 10, 1865, the newly freed blacks, led by Rev. Mack Austin, established Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church. The blacks worked for other people and earned money putting up fence posts and rail fences. Kohrville School

Ten families saved money from lumbering and making charcoal and bought land northwest of Houston along Cypress Creek, called "The Bottoms." The Bottoms is now in Lakewood Subdivision, off Louetta Road and highway 249. The families purchasing land included the families of Jake Woods, Willis Woods, Mango Weeds, Phil Blackstock, Thomas Amos, Richard Patterson, Sam Williams, Livington Stewart, Kyle Williams, and Runch Carrs.

Willis Woods had 310 acres of land in The Bottoms. He gave land to the community for a church, cemetery, school, and the Farmers Improvements Hall. The Farmers Improvement Society was a Masonic organization. The Bottoms was right on Cypress Creek, which was frequently over its banks, so the black community moved. Mr. Pillot sold much of the land to the people, and they settled on land from present highway 249 to Boudreaux Road. All that remains of the early settlement at The Bottoms is a cemetery. Many of the graves are unmarked today, but some of the marked tombs are those for the following: Jake Woods (May 30, 1851 - August 13, 1925) Rozelia Woods (June 30, 1857 - September 11, 1922)

Strong Blackstock (July 14, 1886 - November 30, 1920)

Even after the settlers had moved, the school and church remained in the Bottoms for some years. Sophia Woods Blackshear, born in 1882, remembered walking the three miles to school. The Mills children lived on Willow Creek, and they walked six miles to attend the school in The Bottoms. Since children often needed to help on the family farm, school was usually held only three to five months during the year.

In the 1870s, German immigrants Paulin (Paul) and Agnes Tautenhahn Kohrmann opened a general store on the dusty road that later became highway 249. Soon the community became known as "Kohrville", after the owners of the main place of business in the area. Sometimes the name was spelled "Korville." In 1881, a post office was established at Kohrville. It operated out of the Kohrmann store, and Paul Kohrmann served as postmaster. Mail was delivered by rail to Cypress and by stagecoach to Kohrville. The post office remained in Kohrville until 1911, when it was discontinued and mail was delivered from Huffsmith. A one-room frame building was built in Kohrville for a school. This was Rural School District #1. A similar school was built in Neudorf or Neidorf, Rural School District #7. Because of its post office address, this school was also considered to be in Kohrville.

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