Editing Barry, Texas (section)

==History==
Established in 1886, the city was named after [[Bryan T. Barry]], an early landowner who sold 300 acres to settlers. Its original location was a mile south of its present site. After the [[St. Louis Southwestern Railway]] completed a line between [[Corsicana, Texas|Corsicana]] and [[Hillsboro, Texas|Hillsboro]] in 1888, residents moved to the present location near the railroad tracks. A public school opened in 1896 to serve the settlement, which also had a post office, general store and gin. By 1914, the community of 400 residents had two banks, a newspaper, hotel, stores, eateries, a blacksmith, and three churches. A Masonic lodge was later founded. The Barry school merged with nearby [[Blooming Grove ISD|Blooming Grove]] in 1958.<ref name="hbot">{{Handbook of Texas|id=hlb09|Barry, Texas}}</ref>