Notes for George Newton JORDAN

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Notes for George Newton JORDAN

This is something about Farmersville;
McKinney, Tx.
1948 Business Directory :

Farmersville, Texas history is within itself a story of unusual adventures so fantastic as to seem almost unbelievable. It was in the year 1845 that Capt. John Yeary, accompanied by his brother, Jim Yeary and an ox cart caravan, came from Murray County, Tennessee to this location. This group of people settled about two and one half miles northeast of the present site of Farmersville, establishing a community known as "Yeary's Place". A humorous event later brought about a change in name causing it to be designated as "Sugar Hill". According to history it was a rather strenuous task to obtain liquor in those days due to the peimitive mode of transportation. One load of the amber fluid proved to be unusually unpalitable until a member of the colony dropped a lump of sugar into the whiskey jog / jug. This event proved to be of such importance that the community thereafter went by the name of "Sugar Hill".
The village continued to thrive and grow until the year 1854. Then tragedy stalked into their midst. It was on Christmas Day that a band of roving Indians chose to swoop in bringing heartbreak and terror, ransacking the entire settlement and killing three white men. Immediately following this massacre, Sugar Hill moved to the present town site and the name was changed to Farmersville. This name was chosen because of the fertile black land upon which this group of farmers had chosen to build their homes and establish a new settlement.
This band of loyal citizens continued their brave fight against all obstacles and a period of real growth began to develop in 1856 when Mack Henslee opened a general store and saloon. Soon after that Tom Sherwood and Pitt Chisum opened a grocery and clothing store. Later business firms were the Houghston Store, Neathery and Church and J. A. and W. S. Aston. Still later was established the Farmersville Times, Rike's Drug Store and J. Purvin Dry Goods. Since that time progress has seemed to be the keynote as a steady process of activity, growth and development has been the order of the
day till at the present writing one needs only to visit this thriving little city to realize that it is one of the most progressive and wide awake towns in this entire section of the country.
Its steady growth from the historical day it was founded in 1854 to its present tabulation of 2800 population is ample proof of the progress made by the wholehearted co-operation of those loyal citizens who have been instrumental in the building of a community to which we can all point with
pride and claim as our very own.
Principal commercial industries now located in Farmersville are as follows : One bank, four dairies, two candy factories, infants and childrens dress factory, two theatres, Municipal Light, Water & Sewer Plant, Community Public Services, Cotton Oil Company, two gins and numerous other enterprises. Farmersville is the principal onion producing and shipping center of Collin County.

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