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History of Bulah in Cherokee County

By: Claudia Hazlewood

Revised by: Laurie E. Jasinski

Published: 1952

Updated: August 31, 2025

Bulah, on Farm Road 23 eight miles southwest of Rusk in southwestern Cherokee County, was established before 1900. In 1940 the community had a population of twenty-five, a store, and a union church and school. Bulah School Distict No. 13 was consolidated with the Rusk Independent School District in the mid-1950s. Most of the residents subsequently moved out of the area, but in the late 1980s a school and a few houses were still there. In the early 2000s the schoolhouse was used for family reunions. Hendrick Cemetery is located in Bulah, and Adams Chapel Methodist Church is in the vicinity. No population estimates were available in 2020, though family descendants of early landowners continued to live in the area.

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Bibliography:

Cherokee County History (Jacksonville, Texas: Cherokee County Historical Commission, 1986). Hattie Joplin Roach, A History of Cherokee County (Dallas: Southwest, 1934).

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Claudia Hazlewood Revised by Laurie E. Jasinski, “Bulah, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed May 19, 2026, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bulah-tx.

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Original Publication Date:
1952
Most Recent Revision Date:
August 31, 2025