Re: Does anyone know where Davila TX is?
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Does anyone know where Davila TX is?
3/04/00
DAVILLA, TEXAS. Davilla is on Farm Road 487 eighteen miles
west of Cameron in western Milam County. It was settled in the 1860s
and named for Miguel Davila, who had received the original grant for
the land in 1833. A surveyor named Chamberlin purchased the site
from the Davila estate and sold town lots with the restriction that
alcoholic beverages should never be sold in the settlement. A post
office was established there in 1871. Though the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe Railway bypassed the town by several miles in 1881, drawing
away some of the population, Davilla continued to enjoy a measure of
prosperity. In the mid-1880s the community had 350 residents, three
churches, three gristmills and cotton gins, a steam sawmill, and a
district school. In 1903 Davilla had a three-teacher school for 161
white students and a one-teacher school for thirty-eight black students.
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