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PALESTINE , a See also:city and the See also:county-seat of See also:- ANDERSON
- ANDERSON, ADAM (1692—1765)
- ANDERSON, ALEXANDER (c. 1582-1620?)
- ANDERSON, ELIZABETH GARRETT (1836— )
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1662—1728)
- ANDERSON, JAMES (1739-1808)
- ANDERSON, JOHN (1726-1796)
- ANDERSON, MARY (1859– )
- ANDERSON, RICHARD HENRY (1821–1879)
- ANDERSON, ROBERT (1750–1830)
- ANDERSON, SIR EDMUND (1530-1605)
Anderson county, See also:Texas, U.S.A., about 90 M. E. by N. of See also:Waco. Pop. (1910 See also:census) Io,482. It is served by two lines of the See also:International & See also:Great See also:Northern railway, and by the Texas See also:State railway. Palestine is the See also:trade centre of a See also:district which produces See also:cotton, See also:timber, See also:fruit (especially peaches), an excellent grade of wrapper See also:tobacco, See also:petroleum, See also:iron-ore and See also:salt. It has various manufactures, including cotton gins, cotton-See also:seed oil, cigars, See also:lumber and See also:brick. Its factory products were valued at $735,162 in 1905. About 2 M. See also:south-See also:west of Palestine a See also:settlement (the first in the See also:present Anderson county) was made in 1837, and there Fort See also:Houston, a stockade fort, was built to protect the settlers from the See also:Indians. Palestine was laid out and was
made the county-seat in 1846; it was chartered as a city in 1875, and rechartered in 1905. In 1909 it adopted a See also:commission See also:government.
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