CORSICANA  , a

city and the county-seat of Navarro county, Texas, U.S.A., situated in the N.E. part of the state, about 55 M . S. of Dallas . Pop . (189o) 6285; (1goo) 9313, of whom 2399 were of negro descent; (1910 census) 9749 . It is served by the Houston & Texas Central, the St Louis South Western, and the Trinity & Brazos Valley railways . It is the centre of a large and productive wheat- and cotton-growing region, which has also numerous oil wells (with a total production in 1907 of 226,311 barrels) . The city has two oil refineries, a large cotton 1 gin and a cotton compress, and among its manufactures are cotton-seed oil, cotton-cloth, flour and ice . The total value of the factory product in 1905 was $1,796,805, being an increase of 50'3% since 1900 . Natural gas is extensively used for fuel and for lighting . Corsicana is the seat of the Texas state orphan home and of an Odd Fellows widows' and orphans' home, and has a Carnegie library . Corsicana was named in honour of the wife of a Mexican, Navarro, who owned a large tract of land in the county and from whom the county was named . The first permanent settlement here was made in 1848, and Corsicana was incorporated as a village in 185o and chartered as a city in 1871 .