Branchville, Texas

Unincorporated community in Texas, United States

30°53′4″N 96°45′50″W / 30.88444°N 96.76389°W / 30.88444; -96.76389CountryUnited StatesStateTexasCountyMilamElevation

305 ft (93 m)Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)Area code(s)512 & 737GNIS feature ID1379455^[1]

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)