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Encyclopedia Britannica



PALESTINE

This article appears in Volume V20, Page 627 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS
PALESTINE , a city and the county-seat of Anderson county,
Texas
 , U.S.A., about 90 M. E. by N. of Waco. Pop. (1910 census) Io,482. It is served by two lines of the International &
Great
  Northern railway, and by the
Texas
  State railway. Palestine is the
trade
  centre of a
district
  which produces
cotton
 , timber, fruit (especially peaches), an excellent grade of wrapper tobacco, petroleum, iron-ore and salt. It has various manufactures, including
cotton
  gins, cotton-seed oil, cigars, lumber and brick. Its factory products were valued at $735,162 in 1905. About 2 M.
south
 -west of Palestine a
settlement
  (the first in the present Anderson county) was made in 1837, and there Fort
Houston
 , a stockade fort, was built to protect the settlers from the Indians. Palestine was laid out and was
made the county-seat in 1846; it was chartered as a city in 1875, and rechartered in 1905. In 1909 it adopted a commission government.


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