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Black Hills

Navarro County, Texas

Black Hills sits on Farm Road 1839, eight miles northwest of Corsicana in north central Navarro County. It was probably settled before 1900; by 1906 its school had two teachers and eighty-nine students. It peaked before the First World War with a gin, a store and a church, then declined through the 1920s. Population has held at about eighty since 2000.

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Source: Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas, entry for Black Hills, Navarro County (Christopher Long)..