Editing Deweyville, Texas (section)

==Historical development==
[[File:Deweyville Plant of Sabine Tram Company in Book of Texas (1916) (14770388191).jpg|thumb|left|Logging train at Deweyville Plant of Sabine Tram Company]]
This settlement was established in 1898 as a sawmill site by the Sabine Tram Company, which had a logging operation. It was named after [[George Dewey]], an admiral in the [[United States Navy]] who was victorious in the [[Battle of Manila Bay]] in the Spanish–American War in the Philippines that same year.<ref name="tsha">[https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hld21 TSHA Online – Texas State Historical Association<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Within two years a post office would be established. For a short time this town was the largest in Newton County. Electricity was installed for the residents of Deweyville in the 1920s.<ref name="tsha"/>

The original settlement was called "Possum Bluff". It was purchased by Pierre Lavine from Bill Morrison, for a team of oxen in 1886. A Texas Historical Marker was erected in 1967 on Highway 12 near the Texas / Louisiana border stating this information. The marker was later moved to the front of the Deweyville Public Library.