Berea, Texas, Marion County. (original) (raw)

Berea TX - Jefferson Christian Academy

History in a Pecan Shell

The community was begun as a Seventh-day Adventist colony around 1914. It�s early history is underreported and it remains primarily a Seventh-day community with a church and a school (the Adventist Jefferson Rural Academy).

From the early 1960s when it�s population was a reported 142 people, it declined to 74 in the 1970s, growing to an estimated 250 by the end of the 1980s.

Berea TX City Limit

Berea TX - Berea Cemetery

Berea TX Building

Berea TX - Castle like building

Berea TX Scene

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