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Barry is a small city in Navarro County on State Highway 22 and the old St. Louis Southwestern Railway, ten miles northwest of Corsicana.

Barry was established in 1886 and named for Bryan T. Barry, the landowner who sold 300 acres of his land to settlers arriving in the area.

The town originally stood about a mile south of its present site and moved north to the tracks in 1888, when the railroad completed its line from Corsicana to Hillsboro.

Barry's first public school opened in 1896 and enrolled 127 pupils by 1906; the Barry school later merged with neighboring Blooming Grove's district in 1958, and students are served by the Blooming Grove Independent School District today.

By 1914 Barry was a busy cotton-era town of 400 residents with two banks, a hotel, a cafe, a blacksmith shop, general stores, three churches, and its own weekly newspaper, the News.

Barry's population slipped to 350 residents and just seven businesses by 1939 as the cotton economy declined.

The 2020 Census counted 220 residents in Barry, down from 242 in 2010 — though still slightly above its 2000 count of 209.

The entire city of Barry covers only about 0.45 square miles of Navarro County farmland.