sentences:  The settlement was first called Belcher after local ranchers of the same name, though the settlement was really nothing more than the headquarters of that 27,000 acre ranch.In 1887, the Gainesville, Henrietta and Western Railway was surveyed through Montague County, Texas, generally north of modern-day U.S. Route 82.Ranchers John and A. S. Belcher offered land for the railway's right-of-way, and the community of Belcherville was born.