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Street
signs in Point Blank
TE Photo 2002 |
History in
a Pecan Shell
Originally named
by the French governess of a local family as Blanc Point, the
name was later Anglicized into its current form.
Florence Dissiway was the woman’s name and her employeer was R/T Robinson,
the man who became Point Blank’s first merchant. Another early resident
(Geo. Wood) would later become governor of Texas.
The town received a post office in 1884 and due to its somewhat remote
location and the lack of a railroad, the population remained at an
estimated 75 – as late as 1925.
With the construction of nearby Lake Livingston in the late 1960s,
Point Blank shot up to nearly 200 residents. It incorporated in the
mid 1970s and reached a population of 325 in the mid 1980s. |
Point Blank
From Huntsville
- East Texas Sunday Drive by Bob Bowman
"[East of Huntsville
on] U.S. 190 you'll discover the village of Point Blank, which
sounds like something out of an Old West novel. Actually, Point Blank
was was originally named Blanc Point by a Frenchwoman who moved
here from Alabama. The town was also known as Point White and
White Point. Ask for directions to a small cemetery on the
banks of Lake Livingston, where Texas' second governor, George T.
Wood, is buried." |
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