Shankleville: Shankleville Community

Blue wood framed house with porch and two women

Addie L. and A.T. Odom Homestead in Shankleville

White wood framed church

Mount Hope Baptist Church

Cemetery entrance arch saying Shankleville Community cemetery

Shankleville Community Cemetery

Cemetery grave stones

Shankleville Cemetery

African American family posing for a photograph

Odom family of Shankleville

Portrait of Lonnie Fay Odom

Lonnie Faye Odom

Larutha Clay holding a family history book

Larutha Clay, Shankleville descendant

Multigenerational group posing for a photograph in a church

Shankleville descendants

People speaking in front of a sign saying Purple Hull Pea Festival

Annual Purple Hull Pea Festival in Shankleville

Two men with a bushel of purple hulled peas dated 2016

Purple Hull Peas on display during annual festival in Shankleville

Shankleville is a “freedmen’s community” founded by Jim and Winnie Shankle. The Jim Shankle Cemetery, Mount Hope Baptist Church, and the Odom Homestead anchor the community and are the focus of ongoing restoration and rehabilitation projects supported by the Shankleville Historical Society. The annual Purple Hull Pea festival provides the public an opportunity to meet the descendants of East Texas freedmen and to learn more about African American community life and culture. 

Shankleville Community

  • 3.5 mi SW of Burkeville, via SH 63 W to FM 1415 South, Shankleville, TX
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