Waverly orOld Waverly is anunincorporated community inWalker County, Texas, United States. It is located at the intersection ofTexas State Highway 150 andFarm to Market Road 1725. Its population was 200 as of 2000.[1]
James Winters settled in Waverly in 1835. By 1852, 300 people, including some slaves, were in the area. The town was incorporated in 1858. A post office operated there from 1855 to 1872. Around that same time, Methodist, Presbyterian, and Episcopalian churches were started in the town. The town diminished around 1870. By 1896, the population was up to 400, but dwindled to 100 by 1925. By the 1980s, all that was left of Waverly was a cemetery, a Presbyterian church, and a subdivision.[1]
Old Waverly is served in part by theColdspring-Oakhurst Consolidated Independent School District,[2] with the New Waverly Independent School District splitting at Browder Loop & Prescott Drive.
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30°31′45″N95°21′10″W / 30.52917°N 95.35278°W /30.52917; -95.35278