Greenville, Texas

We are located in Greenville, Texas and we are just a short
drive from Dallas, Texas.
Greenville is home to large corporations such as Rubbermaid, L-3
Communications and Kal-Kan. It is also home to the American Cotton Museum
and Audie Murphy Museum.
Greenville began as a settlement on the Blackland prairie. Greenville was
incorporated as a city on April 13, 1852 and became the county seat when Hunt
County was created by the first legislature of Texas.
It was a central city in the growing and exporting of cotton to locations
around the world. It was the largest city in the area in 1900.
Greenville has grown into an industrial, agricultural and technological center.
Greenville was named for Thomas J. Green, a general in the Texas
Army in the war for independence from Mexico and, later, a member of the
Congress of the Republic of Texas. Hunt County was named after Memucan Hunt,
another Texas freedom fighter and Minister to the United States for the Republic
of Texas.
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