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During the early 1840s settlement of the area proceeded rapidly, and
in 1846 the First Legislature of the state of Texas established
Titus County, which included all of the territory of present-day
Morris and Franklin counties. The county was named for Andrew
Jackson Titus, an early Red River County settler. Mount Pleasant was
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With the outbreak of the Civil War, support for the Confederacy in
the county was nearly unanimous. Some local historians have claimed
that 1,500 Titus County men served either in Confederate or state
units during the war. The end of the Civil War brought sweeping
changes in the county's economic foundations. |
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The Tyler Tap Railroad crossed the county in 1878. The East Line and
Red River had built across the southeast corner in 1876. In 1913 an
independent line, the Paris and Mount Pleasant, was completed.
For more than seventy years after the Civil War, Titus County
remained predominantly rural, with an economy based on agricultural
products. The county's dependence on agriculture was even more
pronounced following the demarcation of Franklin and Morris counties
in 1875, a move that reduced the county to its present size and
boundaries. |
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Miller's Cove
Mount Pleasant
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Talco
Winfield
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