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Ellis County is
located in north central Texas. Waxahachie, the largest town and
county seat. Acting on a bill sponsored by Gen. Edward H. Tarrant,
the state legislature officially established Ellis County on
December 20, 1849. It was drawn from Navarro County, organized in
February of the following year, and probably named for Richard
Ellis, president of the Convention of 1836.
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Ellis County found itself deeply
embroiled in the secession crisis. Waxahachie citizens formed a
chapter of the Knights of the Golden Circle, and in the fall of 1860
rumors of slave insurrections in Waxahachie and in nearby
communities led to the lynching of a number of blacks and allegedly
antislavery whites. When the Nineteenth
Regiment of Texas Cavalry was formed, Ellis County men formed
companies A and C. The Confederate government operated a powder mill
in Waxahachie and a hat factory near the site of present Italy
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The area began the change from a cattle range to
an agricultural region in 1872 with the coming of the Houston and
Texas Central Railroad. After the Panic of 1873 the heavy
immigration from the Old South cotton areas prepared the country for
its future leadership in cotton culture. |
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Bardwell
Cedar Hill (small southern portion)
Ennis
Ferris
Grand Prairie (Far south areas)
Glenn Heights (Southern portion)
Mansfield (South areas)
Maypearl
Midlothian
Ovilla (Southern)
Pecan Hill
Red Oak
Waxahachie
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Alma
Garrett
Italy
Milford
Oak Leaf
Palmer
Venus
Unincorporated area
Telico
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