May 19, 1910

Halley's Comet drops meteorite in northeast Texas

On this day in 1910, a 500-pound meteorite fell to earth outside the northeast Texas community of Charleston during the passage of Halley's Comet. Delta County's most publicized event of the decade (more...)

BELMENA, TX

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.

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Lelia M. Batte, History of Milam County, Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1956).

Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl

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The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this article.

Vivian Elizabeth Smyrl, "BELMENA, TX," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hrb19), accessed May 19, 2013. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.

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