Freestone County, Texas
Towns

Old Ghost Towns - Never had a post office:


Tehuacana Grove/Tea Color

Tea Color (a.k.a Tehuacana Grove) existed by 1908. Tea Color was located SE of 
Streetman, still north of Tehuacana Creek.  The Teacolor community was an 
Africian-American community who derived its name from the tea color appearance 
of its mulatto citizens. Tea Color was part of a larger overall community.
The Rhode Island community was south of the creek and Tea Color was north of the
creek.  
   Tea Color had a Baptist Church and Hillary Chapel Methodist church. Eventually 
Hillary Chapel Methodist was moved to Fairfield on Bateman Road.  The Baptist 
church remained and became abandoned and deteriorating.  A 1918 soil survey map 
shows it as Tea Color church.  The other side of Tehuacana Creek was Rischer's 
Store north of Rhode Island Church and community.  Eventually the store closed
because the traffic pattern had changed from the highway traffic from Fairfield 
to Corsciana to the major interstate 75 built to the slightly west going all 
the way from Dallas down to Houston.  A 1961 map lists the community as Tehuacana 
Grove.
 
Churches:
  Hillary Chapel Methodist church (moved to closer to Fairfield on Bateman Road)
  Tea Color Baptist Church

Businesses:
  Anthony Rischer Sr started the original well known store, Rischer's Store (?-1918)
[The store probably passed to one of his children who worked it in the 1920s.]
Loyds Rischer's Grocery Store (1930-1940)


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REFERENCES:

The Fairfield Recorder - Thursday, November 22, 1934 Page: 4

  WORK AND PLANS OF NEGRO CO. COUNCIL

"The communities are divided in Eastern and Western groups as follows: Eastern Dist - 
  ...Tea Color"
    
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The Fairfield Recorder - Thursday, July 4, 1940 Page: 1
   
Adopt Monthly Schedule for Co. Health Work 

 "... Thursday will be devoted to Precinct No. 4. ... the third [Thursday] in 
Streetman and Tea Color communities ..."   

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The Fairfield Recorder - Thursday, March 18, 1943 Page: 1 

  Negro Food For Victory Display

  "The ninth County Meat Show among Negroes was held March 12-13 in the Watson 
building on Main Street in Teague. ...
   The following communities took part in the display: ... Tea Color".
  
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Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light - Friday, August 26, 1949 - Page 18

"A group of colored farmers, interested In conservation farming, met last Monday 
afternoon at the Teacolor community church. This group previously had met Tuesday, 
Aug. 2. and organized themselves into the Teacolor conservation group, and is 
composed of the following: Lloyd Rischer, Adolph Bennett David Johnson, Osby 
Perkins, Jesse Woodard and Hershel Rischer, tenants of the J. S. Adair farm. 
This group will co-operate with the Navarro-Hill conservation district.""

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Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light - Wednesday, October 3, 1951 - Page 11

"... E. J. Davis and Robert Sandford, Teacolor Conservation Group; ..." 

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The Wortham Journal - Thursday, August 10, 1961 Page: 1

SOIL CONSERVATIONS DISTRICT NEWS

 "...Deer are plentiful in that vicinity in Tea Color community, southeast of 
Streetman. They have sprigged around 118 acres of coastal bermudagrass. ..."

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The Mexia Daily News - Sunday, October 26, 1969 - Page 7

[A sheriff's report] 
"... Teacolor in afternoon to check burglary of house, complainant didn't show 
  Sunday afternoon. ..."
 
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The Teague Chronicle - Thursday, March 1, 1990 Page: 13

[A sheriff's report] 
 "...Report on unsafe bridge Tea Color area with subject driving around warning and 
fell off bridge. ..."