Branchville, Texas

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, 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.
Shad Fenniel, who killed five people and injured another five during a home invasion on July 3, 1914.