Spivey Crossing is a farming community in the Brazos River Valley, established as early as 1854 at an old wagon trail crossing named for Temple Spivey, the first known settler of the Smith Bend community of Bosque County. A wealthy planter, Spivey migrated to Cherokee County in 1849 and purchased land in 1853 in McLennan County, present-day Bosque County, on the west bend of the Brazos River. The crossing named for him lay about one-half mile upstream from Cedar Creek, which flows from Bosque County into the Brazos River. The community was formerly known as Lebanon and grew around Lebanon Methodist Church, established in 1856. While Spivey lived on Mill Creek on the north side of the Brazos River in Bosque County, a group of farmers arrived in the area that became the Lebanon community around 1855, and William E. Anderson and David Hughes Williams became its first documented permanent settlers. In 1880, the Lebanon Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was destroyed by fire, and the congregation moved to a new site two miles east to serve the expanding community, where a new church and school were built. After the school consolidated with the Aquilla School District in 1945, the Lebanon community gradually became known as Spivey Crossing. The community was closely linked with other Brazos River Valley communities through the old Brazos River wagon crossings.