The TXGenWeb Project Rockwall County Texas

from the Handbook of Texas Online

BLACKLAND, TEXAS. Blackland is on State Highway 276 four miles southeast of Rockwall in central Rockwall County. The settlement received a 

post office in 1876. During the 1880s it had a population of 125, three businesses, and a gristmill. Local farmers shipped cotton, wheat, and oats. 

The population had declined to about fifty by 1900, although the Blackland school employed two teachers and registered seventy-nine students. The 

post office was closed in 1903. Blackland's population was 114 in 1904, fourteen in 1940, and forty-nine in 1990.



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