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County seat, Woodville; area, 925 square miles; located in east Texas; created and organized, 1846. Surface, high and rolling in northern part, level plain in the southern portion; soil, light sandy, rich black land. Industries, fruit and truck, growing, farming. Prodcuts, all manner of east Texas fruits and vegetables, cotton, corn and other staples. Transportation, T. & O., M. K. & T. and the W. & C. P. Rys. Natural resources, sandstone and brick clay, traces of oil. Towns, Warren, Rockland, Doucett. (Encyclopedia of Texas, by Ellis A. Davis, Dallas, Tex., 1922, page 184) Woodville - Judical seat of Tyler Conty; pop., 785. 55 miles from Beaumont, on the T. & N. O. Ry. Banks, Tyler County State, Woodville State. Has newspaper. Industry, lumber and cotton. Tel., W. U. Express. (Source: Encyclopedia of Texas, by Ellis A. Davis, Dallas, Tex., 1922, page 165) Tyler County is named for John Tyler, the tenth President of the United States. Tyler county does not contain the city of Tyler, Texas; the latter is located approximately 140 miles to the north in Smith County.
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