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One of the first white men to settle permanently in Wood County was
Martin Varner, who lived southeast of the site of present
Hainesville by 1824. Webster, the first real community in the area,
was established by 1845. In 1850 Wood County was demarked from Van
Zandt County and organized. Quitman was established to serve as the
county seat. The county was named for George T. Wood, governor of
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In 1861 the county voted in favor of secession by a majority of 70
percent, yet the two men elected by the county to serve as its
delegates to the Secession Convention, John D. Rains and A. P.
Shuford, both voted against the secession ordinance. Emory Rains,
state senator from Wood County, was one of the signers of the public
address asking the citizens of Texas to vote against secession. |
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Wood County remained during the years 1870 to 1920 as it was during
the antebellum years, overwhelmingly agricultural and rural. During
these fifty years both the population and the number of farms
grew-from 6,894 and 756, respectively, to all-time highs of 27,707
and 4,333. During those years corn and cotton were the main crops.
In 1920 the county produced 1,033,231 bushels of corn, an all-time
high. The valuation of county farms stood at almost $19 million. |
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Cities and
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Alba (partly in Rains County) |
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Hawkins |
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Mineola |
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Quitman |
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Winnsboro (partly in Franklin County) |
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Yantis |
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Crow (unincorporated) |
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