Branchville, Texas Explained

Official Name:	Branchville, Texas
Settlement Type:	Unincorporated community
Pushpin Map:	Texas#USA
Pushpin Label:	Branchville
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	United States
Subdivision Type1:	State
Subdivision Name1:	Texas
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Milam
Timezone:	Central (CST)
Utc Offset:	-6
Timezone Dst:	CDT
Utc Offset Dst:	-5
Elevation Ft:	305
Coordinates:	30.8844°N -96.7639°W
Area Code:	512 & 737
Blank Name:	GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:	1379455

Branchville is an unincorporated community located in Milam County, Texas, United States. 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, 13miles east of Cameron in eastern Milam County.

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.

Notable people

Arthur Bryant, Kansas City barbecue icon who operated Arthur Bryant's and is buried in Branchville.^[1]
Shad Fenniel, who killed five people and injured another five during a home invasion on July 3, 1914.^[2]

Notes and References

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)