Point Blank, Texas, San Jacinto County. (original) (raw)

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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