870173 TMRS CAFR new8 fix 049-081.qxd - Texas Municipal ...
870173 TMRS CAFR new8 fix 049-081.qxd - Texas Municipal ...
870173 TMRS CAFR new8 fix 049-081.qxd - Texas Municipal ...
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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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