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Paris, Texas
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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A city and the county-seat of Lamar county, Texas, U.S.A., about 93 m. N.E. of Dallas. Pop. (1890), 8 2 54; (1900), 935 8, of whom 3061 were negroes; (1906 estimate), 10,018. It is served by the St Louis & San Francisco (of which it is a terminus), the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe, the Texas & Pacific, and the Texas Midland railways. The city has cotton gins and a cotton compress, and various manufactures. In 1905 its factory products were valued at $854,930. Paris was settled in 1841, incorporated as a town in 1874, and chartered as a city in 1905.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Paris, Texas'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/paris-texas.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Paris, Texas'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/p/paris-texas.html. 1910.
