Blevins Community and School
Eddy,
McLennan
County, Texas
From Bruceville-Eddy, take 1239 8 miles S. to Blevins Cemetery.
Year Erected: 1992
The community of Blevins began about 1860, when Texas Revolution veteran Thomas
H. Barron and his family settled near Deer Creek. The Rev. Isaac Taylor operated
a school for area children from the 1870s until 1885, when Blevins School
opened. A public school district, formally organized in 1916, served students in
a nine-square mile area until 1939. A post office operated from 1886 to 1904,
and at its height the community boasted two general stores, two cotton gins, two
churches, a blacksmith shop, and ice house.