 The Whitewright Sun
Thursday, October 5, 1972 pg. 8 Volume 2, number 1 of t he Grayson College Journal, published in October 1894, gave the following early history of W hitewright: HISTORY OF WHITEWRIGHT As a business center Whitewright is excelled by few towns of twice its size, its population being little over 2,000. It brought last year nearly 15,000 bales of cotton, and paid a better price for same than any town in the county. It buys more cotton from wagons than Sherman or Denison, besides shipping a large amount of grain, cotton seed, etc. The soil a bout Whitewright is o f a black w axy nature, highly productive, a lways making f ood crops. The yield o f w heat this year went as high as 3 0 bushels per a cre in some instances, oats f rom 60 to 100, corn 40 to 60 a nd cotton from one-half to three-quarters of a bale per a cre. The farmers, as a rule, are well-to-do, enterprising, e nergetic a nd we ll up with things. M ost of them own their homes, have g ood commodious houses a nd drive fine horses. The town and the country are thoro ughly united, no bickerings or petty strife e xists between the producer and the merchants; everyb ody is at peace with others and, we hope, with their God. Here reside some o f the county's wealthiest citizens, among them we might mention W.B. and W.G. Womack, W.T. Sears, Hoard & Lively, C.W. Bryant, Dr. R. May, Dr. D.M. Ray, Jones Reinhardt, Dan and Tom Gillet, S.E. Jones, W.H. King, Henry Sears, J.D. Patterson, W.D. Fuller, Lewis Holland, J.L. Patterson, W.D. Fuller, Lewis Holland, J.L. Bradford, T.E. Everheart, J.T. Burgher, W.J. Rutledge, M.L. Franklin, Eli Smith, J.B. Woolsey, C .B. Braynt and many others whose names an d taxable values are not at present accessible. The taxable values of the town are $650,000 while the rate of taxation bond tax and all, does not exceed 37-1/2 cents on the $100. The city is full of elegant residences and neat cottages and very few vacant houses can be found her a t any time. Summed up: Whitewright is one of t he most substantial towns in the state, the best cotton market in North Texas, peopled with enlightened citizens, selling goods a s cheaply or cheaper than other points, and offering superior inducements to the home-seeker and the trading public. [Editor's note: Nothing is said in the ab ove ab out the nameing of Whitewright. The town w as name for William Whitewright, one of the officials of the railroad a t the time it was built to this place. Whitewright was the end of the line for a while and the road later was built to Dallas.]  Whitewright History Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |