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Handbook of Texas Online: Cypress
(Cypress)
format this article to print CYPRESS, TEXAS (Harris County). Cypress is on U.S. Highway 290 twenty miles northwest of Houston in northwestern Harris County. Various Atakapan Indian tribes once ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dale
(Dale)
format this article to print DALE, TEXAS. Dale is on Farm Road 1854 some seven miles northeast of Lockhart in Caldwell County. It was named for the valley in which it is located. A post office was ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dallas
(Dallas)
format this article to print DALLAS, TEXAS. Dallas is on the Trinity River qv in the center of Dallas County in North Central Texas. It is crossed by Interstate highways 20, 30, 35, and 45. The ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dalworthington Gardens
(Dalworthington Gardens)
format this article to print DALWORTHINGTON GARDENS, TEXAS. Dalworthington Gardens, one of the most unusual communities in Texas, is located in east central Tarrant County between Interstate 30 to ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Davilla
(Davilla)
format this article to print DAVILLA, TEXAS. Davilla is on Farm Road 487 eighteen miles west of Cameron in western Milam County. It was settled in the 1860s and named for Miguel Davila, who had ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dawson
(Dawson)
format this article to print DAWSON, TEXAS. Dawson is twenty-one miles southwest of Corsicana and fifty miles south of Dallas in southwestern Navarro County. The town was named for Britton ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: De Leon
(DeLeon)
format this article to print DE LEON, TEXAS. De Leon is at the intersection of State highways 6 and 16, in northeast Comanche County. The Leon River is three miles northeast of town and flows into ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Deanville
(Deanville)
format this article to print DEANVILLE, TEXAS. Deanville is on Farm Road 60 four miles south of State Highway 21 in southwestern Burleson County. The first settler in the heavily wooded area was ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Decatur
(Decatur)
format this article to print DECATUR, TEXAS. Decatur, the county seat of Wise County, is on U.S. highways 287 and 380 and the Burlington Northern Railway, forty miles nort hwest of Fort Worth at ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Denison
(Denison)
format this article to print DENISON, TEXAS. Denison is on U.S. highways 75 and 69 seven miles north of Sherman in northeastern Grayson County. In the early 1870s William Benjamin Munson, Sr., ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dennis
(Dennis)
format this article to print DENNIS, TEXAS. Dennis is on Farm Road 1543 fifteen miles southwest of Weatherford in southwestern Parker County. In 1892, after a bridge wa s built across the Brazos ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Denton
(Denton)
format this article to print DENTON, TEXAS (Denton County). Denton, the county seat of Denton County, is on Interstate Highway 35 where it forks to become 35E to Dallas and 35W to Fort Worth ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Deport
(Deport)
format this article to print DEPORT, TEXAS. Deport is on Highway 271 at the Red River county line, eighteen miles southeast of Paris in southeast Lamar County. It was founded in the late 1800s by ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Desoto
(DeSoto)
format this article to print DESOTO, TEXAS. DeSoto (De Soto) is twelve miles south of Dallas on Interstate highways 35 and 20, U.S. Highway 67, and Ten Mile Creek in sout hern Dallas County. It is ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Detroit
(Detroit)
format this article to print DETROIT, TEXAS. Detroit is on the Missouri Pacific Railroad and U.S. Highway 82, two miles from the Lamar county line in western Red River County. It developed ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dike
(Dike)
format this article to print DIKE, TEXAS. Dike is on Farm Road 69 ten miles northeast of Sulphur Springs in northeastern Hopkins County. The site was first settled aroun 1850, when Michael and ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dime Box
(Dime Box)
format this article to print DIME BOX, TEXAS. Dime Box is on Farm Road 141 twelve miles northeast of Giddings in eastern Lee County. It originated between 1869 and 1877, when a settler built a ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dodd City
(Dodd City)
format this article to print DODD CITY, TEXAS. Dodd City is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 82 and Farm Road 2077, five miles east of Bonham in central Fannin County . Settlement of the area ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Double Oak
(Double Oak)
format this article to print DOUBLE OAK, TEXAS. Double Oak is on Farm Road 407 ten miles south of Denton in southern Denton County. The area had a school district as ear ly as 1884, but Double Oak ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dougherty
(Dougherty)
format this article to print DOUGHERTY, TEXAS (Floyd County). Dougherty, on the Fort Worth and Denver Railway and Farm Road 28 in southeastern Floyd County, was established in 1928 and named for ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Dublin
(Dublin)
format this article to print DUBLIN, TEXAS. Dublin is on U.S. highways 67 and 377 in southwest Erath County. It was founded in 1854 by A. H. Dobkins and named in 1860, probably for the warning ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Duncanville
(Duncanville)
format this article to print DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS. Duncanville is west of the intersection of Interstate Highway 20 and U.S. Highway 67 in southwestern Dallas County. The land on which the city lies ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Eagle Lake
(Eagle Lake)
format this article to print EAGLE LAKE, TEXAS. Eagle Lake is on Highway 90A east of the Colorado River and fifty miles southwest of Houston in southeast Colorado County. The town is beside a ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Eagle Mountain
(Eagle Mountain)
format this article to print EAGLE MOUNTAIN (Tarrant County). Eagle Mountain is in the northwestern corner of Tarrant County (at 32°54' N, 97°27' W). It rises 150 feet above the surrounding ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: East Tawakoni
(East Tawakoni)
format this article to print EAST TAWAKONI, TEXAS. East Tawakoni is on State Highway 276 nine miles west of Emory in western Rains County. It was founded in the 1960s as a residential community on ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Ector
(Ector)
format this article to print ECTOR, TEXAS. Ector is at the intersection of Farm Road 898 and U.S. Highway 82, six miles west of Bonham in central Fannin County. The community started in the late ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Edgewood
(Edgewood)
format this article to print EDGEWOOD, TEXAS. Edgewood, on Farm roads 859 and 1504 and U.S. Highway 80 ten miles northwest of Canton in north central Van Zandt County, grew in three phases ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Edom
(Edom)
format this article to print EDOM, TEXAS. Edom, at the crossing of Farm roads 279, 314, and 2339, sixteen miles southeast of Canton in southeast Van Zandt County, is the third oldest town in the ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Elgin
(Elgin)
format this article to print ELGIN, TEXAS. Elgin is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 290 and State Highway 95, fifteen miles north of Bastrop in north Bastrop County. In 1871 the Houston and ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Elkhart
(Elkhart)
format this article to print ELKHART, TEXAS. Elkhart is at the intersection of State Highway 294 and U.S. Highway 287, eleven miles south of Palestine in southern Anderso n County. In 1851 ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Ellinger
(Ellinger)
format this article to print ELLINGER, TEXAS. Ellinger is at the intersection of State Highway 71 and Farm Road 2503, eleven miles southeast of La Grange in eastern Fayette County. The town is ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Elm Mott
(Elm Mott)
format this article to print ELM MOTT, TEXAS. Elm Mott is near the intersection of Interstate Highway 35 and Farm Road 308, eight miles north of Waco in northeast central McLennan County. The area ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Elmo
(Elmo)
format this article to print ELMO, TEXAS. Elmo is on U.S. Highway 80 some thirteen miles northeast of Kaufman in northeastern Kaufman County. When the Texas and Pacific Railway laid tracks through ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Elmont
(Elm Mott)
format this article to print ELMONT, TEXAS. Elmont is at the intersection of Farm roads 121 and 3356, some fourteen miles south of Sherman in extreme south central Grays on County. Settlers ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Emory
(Emory)
format this article to print EMORY, TEXAS. Emory, the county seat and largest town of Rains County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 69 and State Highway 19, at the center of the county. It was ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Energy
(Energy)
format this article to print ENERGY, TEXAS. Energy is on Farm Road 1702 sixteen miles southeast of Comanche in Comanche County. It was established around 1896 and was reportedly named for its ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Enloe
(Enloe)
format this article to print ENLOE, TEXAS. Enloe is at the junction of Farm roads 2949 and 198, three miles north of Cooper in north central Delta County. It is bordered on the southwest by Brushy ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Ennis
(Ennis)
format this article to print ENNIS, TEXAS. Ennis is on the Southern Pacific Railroad and at the intersection of Interstate Highway 45, State highways 34, 75, and 287, and Farm roads 85, 879, 1183, ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Era
(Era)
format this article to print ERA, TEXAS. Era is on Highway 51 twelve miles from Gainesville in southwestern Cooke County. It was named after Era Hargrave, the daughter o an early settler. Judge ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Euless
(Euless)
format this article to print EULESS, TEXAS. Euless is at the intersection of State highways 10 and 183, on the southwest side of the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, north of the West Fork of the ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Eustace
(Eustace)
format this article to print EUSTACE, TEXAS. Eustace, on U.S. Highway 175 some ten miles northwest of Athens in northwestern Henderson County, was on the J. M. Beltram s urvey. In 1900, when the ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Evant
(Evant)
format this article to print EVANT, TEXAS. Evant is on U.S. Highway 84 some twenty-five miles west of Gatesville in western Coryell County. It was first called Langford Cove, for Asa Langford, ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Everman
(Everman)
format this article to print EVERMAN, TEXAS. Everman is an incorporated residential community on the southern edge of Fort Worth near U.S. Highway 820 in southeastern Tarrant County. Members of ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Fairfield
(Fairfield)
format this article to print FAIRFIELD, TEXAS. Fairfield, the county seat of Freestone County, is at the junction of Interstate Highway 45, U.S. highways 75 and 84, and Farm roads 27, 488, and ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Fairview
(Fairview)
format this article to print FAIRVIEW, TEXAS (Collin County). Fairview is on Farm Road 1378 and State Highway 5, three miles south of McKinney and six miles northeast of Plano in central Collin ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Farmers Branch
(Farmers Branch)
format this article to print FARMERS BRANCH, TEXAS. Farmers Branch is on Interstate Highway 35 and State Highway 77 twelve miles north of downtown Dallas in northwestern Dallas County. The ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Farmersville
(Farmersville)
format this article to print FARMERSVILLE, TEXAS. Farmersville, at the intersection of U.S. Highway 380 and State Highway 78 in east Collin County, was founded about 1849 by settlers who named the ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Fate
(Fate)
format this article to print FATE, TEXAS. Fate is on State Highway 66 and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line four miles northeast of Rockwall in northern Rockwall County . The community's name ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Fayetteville
(Fayetteville)
format this article to print FAYETTEVILLE, TEXAS (Fayette County). Fayetteville is on State Highway 159 and Farm roads 955 and 1291, twelve miles east of La Grange in eastern Fayette County. It ...
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Handbook of Texas Online: Fentress
(Fentress)
format this article to print FENTRESS, TEXAS. Fentress is on the San Marcos River at the southwestern edge of Caldwell County. A settlement, first called Riverside, began developing there in the ...
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