Palestine, Texas

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Palestine, Texas, a city and the county seat of Anderson County, 150 miles north of Houston, on the International Great Northern, and the Texas New Orleans railroads. The manufacturing establishments include cotton-gin works, cottonseed-oil mills, feed mills, grain elevators, mattress factory and office fixtures and show cases. The salt plant has an output of about 150 cars per month. The general shops and offices of the International Great Northern Railroad are located here, with a pay roll of well over $1,000,000 a year. The noteworthy buildings include wholesale houses, banks, church schools, a Y. M. C. A. building. Anderson County has taken first prize in the state contest for the greatest yield of corn per acre, and first and second prize for greatest yield. Cotton, corn, horses, cattle, poultry, fruit and vegetables are the principal farm products. Palestine was settled in 1846 and incorporated under the general law of 1870. Population 1920, U. S. Census, 11,039.