A Primitive Baptist church was located in Blackfoot and was preached by a family member of a resident named Cynthia Ann Parker.

The community's first settlers came from South Carolina and Mississippi and included Isaac Brown, Abe Hoff, and D.M.

The community was supposedly named when Uncle Hamp Hanks, Sr., was told that he was in the "Blackfoot nation" when he arrived there in 1870.

A man named Josh Taylor donated land to the community to build a First Christian church there in 1890, but one was already established a few years earlier.

[2] Blackfoot is located 20 miles northwest of Palestine on Farm to Market Road 860 in the northwestern portion of Anderson County.