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Encyclopedia Britannica



GREENVILLE

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 553 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GREENVILLE , a city and the county-seat of Hunt county;
Texas
 , U.S.A., near the headwaters of the Sabine river, 48 m. N.E. of Dallas. Pop. (190c) 686o, of whom 114 were foreign-born and 1751 were negroes; (1910) 885o. It is served by the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas
 , the St Louis
South
 -Western and the Texas Midland railways. It is an important
cotton
  market, has gins and compresses, a large
cotton
  seed oil refinery, and other manufactories, and is a
trade
  centre for a
rich
  agri-cultural
district
 . The city owns and operates its electric-lighting plant. It is the seat of Burleson College (Baptist), founded in 1893, and i m. from the city limits, in the
village
  of Peniel (pop. 1908, about 500), a community of " Holiness " people, are the Texas Holiness University (1898), a Holiness orphan asylum and a Holiness
press
 . Greenville was settled in 1844, and was chartered as a city in 1875. In 1907 the Texas legislature granted to the city a new charter establishing a commission government similar to that of Galveston.


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