CAMILLA, TEXAS. Camilla is at the intersection of Farm roads
222, 3128, and 3278, seventy miles north of Houston in eastern
San Jacinto County. The community was named for one of its early
settlers, Mrs. Camilla Hardin Davis, shortly after the Civil
War. L. S. McMickin owned the first store at Camilla, and Jim
McMurrey opened a second store there, along with a large cotton
gin. The agricultural settlement became the site of one of the
county's first Farmers' Alliance groups. Camilla received a post
office in 1895, and though this office was subsequently
discontinued, the area population, which largely earned its
livelihood from locally grown cotton, was estimated to be 100
through the first half of the twentieth century. The community
had three rated businesses as late as 1961. By the mid-1960s,
however, the number of residents had fallen to about seventy,
and the community no longer reported any businesses. The
population of Camilla was still reported as seventy in 1990,
though it had increased to 200 by 200