Branchville, Texas

Branchville, Texas
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 30°53′4″N96°45′50″W / 30.88444°N 96.76389°W / 30.88444; -96.76389
Country	United States
State	Texas
County	Milam
Elevation	305 ft (93 m)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	512 & 737
GNIS feature ID	1379455 [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

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Branchville, Texas
2. Branchville, TX from the Handbook of Texas Online
3. Lakeland Ledger, Dec 29, 1982, Arthur Bryant, barbeque king (Obit.) Retrieved May 2012
4. 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)