GREENVILLE
, a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:Hunt county; See also:Texas, U.S.A., near the headwaters of the See also:Sabine See also:river, 48 m
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N.E. of See also:Dallas
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Pop
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(190c) 686o, of whom 114 were See also:foreign-See also:born and 1751 were negroes; (1910) 885o
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It is served by the See also:Missouri, See also:Kansas & Texas, the St See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:South-Western and the Texas Midland See also:railways
.
It is an important See also:cotton See also:market, has gins and compresses, a large cotton See also:seed oil refinery, and other manufactories, and is a See also:trade centre for a See also:rich agri-cultural See also:district
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The city owns and operates its electric-See also:lighting plant
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It is the seat of Burleson See also:College (Baptist), founded in 1893, and i m. from the city limits, in the See also:village of Peniel (pop
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1908, about 500), a community of " Holiness " See also:people, are the Texas Holiness University (1898), a Holiness See also:orphan See also:asylum and a Holiness See also:press
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Greenville was settled in 1844, and was chartered as a city in 1875
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In 1907 the Texas legislature granted to the city a new See also:charter establishing a See also:commission See also:government similar to that of See also:Galveston
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