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GREENVILLE<br />

FINANCIAL SECTION<br />

Population: 23,960<br />

Named for Thomas J. Green, a general in the <strong>Texas</strong> war<br />

for independence from Mexico, Greenville started out as<br />

an ox-trail settlement that became the seat of Hunt<br />

County in 1846. In the 1940s, Greenville was known for its<br />

banks, cotton gins, sheet metal factory, the largest cottonseed<br />

oil mill in the South, machine shops, Carnegie<br />

Foundation public library, and federally funded airfield<br />

called Majors Field. Greenville was the boyhood home of<br />

Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated soldier of World<br />

War II. The city now boasts such industries as electrical<br />

hardware, space electronics, agricultural chemicals, aircraft,<br />

machinery, and clothing.<br />

Top left: the Robin Hood flour elevators and plant; top right: an<br />

exhibit inside the Audie Murphy / American Cotton Museum;<br />

middle left: the Central Christian Church, built in 1899, looks<br />

exactly the same today; middle right: the post office; bottom:<br />

the <strong>Municipal</strong> Auditorium as it looked in the 1940s.<br />

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