Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Deweyville, TX

Deweyville is an unincorporated census-designated place on State Highway 12 and the west bank of the Sabine River in southeastern Newton County, about 35 miles northeast of Beaumont.

The site was first known as Princeton, or Possum Bluff, an old ferry crossing on the Sabine, before the Sabine Tram Company built a sawmill there in 1898.

The new settlement was named for Admiral George Dewey, the hero of the Battle of Manila Bay fought that same year, and a post office opened under the Deweyville name in 1900.

Deweyville became a classic company town under the Peavy-Moore Lumber Company, which owned the general store, the hotel, the community house, and the employee housing, and for a time it was the largest town in Newton County.

An estimated 1,500 people lived in Deweyville in 1936, but a fire destroyed the sawmill in 1943 and the railroad abandoned its line soon after, cutting the population to about 800 by 1949.

Deweyville's population peaked at 1,218 in the 1990 census, and the 2000 census counted 1,190 people living in 459 households.

The Census Bureau counted 571 residents in the Deweyville CDP in 2020, down sharply from 1,023 in 2010.

The Deweyville Pirates of Deweyville High School, on Highway 12, won the school's first-ever football playoff game in November 2020.