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Collinsville
Street Scene
Photo courtesy Mike
Price, November 2007 |
History
in a Pecan Shell
Originally called Springtown, settlement began in the 1850s. Joshua
Miller donated land for the town site and a post office was briefly
in operation from 1857-1858. A woman named L. M. Collins from Ann
Arbor, Michigan opened what is believed to be the first free school
in North Texas. The town was renamed in her honor in the 1890s when
they incorporated.
A more permanent post office opened in 1872 and the railroad (The
Texas and Pacific) came through in 1881. By 1900 the town had a respectable
600 citizens - a figure it kept through the 1950s. It passed the one
thousand mark for the 1990 Census and in 2000 the population was just
over 1,200.
See Toadsuck, a ghost town absorbed
by Collinsville.
Collinsville,
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Collinsville
Texas Today
Photos courtesy
Mike
Price, November 2007 |
Collinsville
Texas Vintage Photos
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| Dishman
Cotton Gin in Collinsville |
| "Have
been told there were 3 cotton gins in Collinsville at one time. My
anscestors came from GA about the 1850s-1860s and grew cotton here.
Was told my grandfather as a boy won the county fair cotton picking
contest. He left home when of age as cotton farming wasn't for him
and he was the only boy with 7 sisters!" - William
Beauchamp. More Cotton
Gins |
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Collinsville
School, early 1900s
Photo courtesy texasoldphotos.com |
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