Bath (Not to be confused with Old Carolina to the North which was once called Bath)
Bath, originally called Possum Walk, was a community on Farm Road 1374
eight miles west of Interstate Highway 45 in southwestern Walker County.
The Union Hill Baptist Church was established there in 1872. The Possum
Walk community changed its name to Bath when its post office was
established in 1887; James H. Bell served as the first postmaster. Bath
reported twenty-five residents in 1892 and forty in 1896. The Union Hill
church building served as both a place of worship and a schoolhouse
until a separate facility for the school was provided in 1899. Around
1900 two cotton gins, a gristmill, and a sawmill operated at Bath. The
post office closed in 1905. In 1911 the community still had its school,
which had seven grades, and the church. As late as 1936 Bath persisted
as a community of scattered farm dwellings clustered around the school
and church. By the early 1990s only the Union Hill Baptist Church and a
cemetery remained.TSHA
Texas State Historical Association
https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/bath-tx
Texas Almanac
https://www.texasalmanac.com/places/bath-0
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bath,_Texas
Texas Escapes
http://www.texasescapes.com/EastTexasTowns/Bath-Texas.htm
Find a Grave
https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/410547/bath-community-cemetery