BELMENA, TEXAS. Belmena is on Farm Road 485 five miles northeast of Cameron in north central Milam County. A post office operated there from 1900 until 1906. A school and several businesses and houses marked the community's location on county highway maps in 1941. Belmena had a population of fifteen in 1990 and 2000.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Lelia M. Batte, History of Milam County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1956).
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