Branchville is an unincorporated community located in Milam County, Texas, United States.[1] According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had a population of 200 in 2000.
Geography
Branchville is located on Farm to Market Road 485, 13 mi (21 km) east of Cameron in eastern Milam County.[2]
Education
Branchville had its own school in 1896. There was a school with one teacher and 30 White students and two one-teacher schools for 133 Black students in 1903. It had only two schools in the 1940s. They joined the Cameron Independent School District in the early 1970s.[2]
Notable people
- Arthur Bryant, Kansas City barbecue icon who operated Arthur Bryant's and is buried in Branchville.[3]
- Shad Fenniel, who killed five people and injured another five during a home invasion on July 3, 1914.[4]
References
- ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Branchville, Texas
- ^ a b Branchville, TX from the Handbook of Texas Online
- ^ Lakeland Ledger, Dec 29, 1982, Arthur Bryant, barbeque king (Obit.) Retrieved May 2012
- ^ Negro kills 8 with a short handled axe, The Newark Advocate (July 3, 1914)
– Kills eight for revenge, The New York Times (July 4, 1914)
– Kills eight with an ax, The Washington Post (July 4, 1914)
– Negro kills 8 negroes, The Daily Advocate (July 4, 1914)
– Four Negroes Dead; Five are Wounded; Slayer Escaped, Cameron Herald (July 9, 1914)
– Two negroes killed and seven may die, The Galveston Daily News (July 4, 1914)
– Five negroes were killed, Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light (July 7, 1914)
– Negro desperado is shot and killed, The Galveston Daily News (February 22, 1915)
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