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KOHRVILLE
Kohrville is a small black community near the
intersection of FM 149 and Spring-Cypress Road. Freed
slaves arriving from Alabama in the 1870s made up much
of its early population. Some of the settlers bought land for
farming, or cut timber for Louetta's sawmill nearby. To-
day two churches, two cemeteries, and a ballpark are
interspersed among wood frame homes in the
neighborhood, and the former Kohrville School has
become a community recreation building.
Sometime before 1880 the settlement was named for
Paul Kohrmann, a German immigrant who ran the post
office. In those days, before the T.&B.V. Railway put
Tomball on the map, mail was carried ten miles from the
railroad station at Cypress. In the early 1900s Agnes
Tautenhahn Kohrmann ran a general store in Kohrville on
property now occupied by Farrells' Supermarket.
LOU ETTA
Louetta was once a small village near the intersection
of Louetta and Spring-Cypress roads, the center of a
lumbering and agricultural community. Sawmills, cotton
gins and a syrup mill dotted the countryside in the vicinity
of Louetta, served since 1906 by the T.&B.V. Railway.
G.W. Moore ran the grocery and dry goods store while
acting as postmaster and railroad agent.
Louetta's location on the railroad gave it a trade
advantage over Klein, its neighbor to the east, and by 1915
Louetta, not Klein, dominated area maps. By the 1 970s,
however, only one remnant of the old railroad town is left,
the sign spelling out "Louetta," along the train tracks next
to the Memorial Chase subdivision. The Klein community,
on the other hand, has retained its identity despite
incursions by subdivision dwellers.
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American Association of University Women. North Harris County Branch. The Heritage of North Harris County, book, April 1986; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth611550/m1/82/?q=Kohrville: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Harris County Public Library.