Parris, Texas

{{Distinguish|Paris, Texas}}

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Parris, Texas is a community that once existed just south of Melissa in central Collin County near the banks of the East Fork{{cite web| url=http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=12030106| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020520214647/http://cfpub.epa.gov/surf/huc.cfm?huc_code=12030106| url-status=dead| archive-date=May 20, 2002|title= East Fork Trinity Watershed|publisher= United States Environmental Protection Agency |accessdate=March 19, 2013}} of the Trinity River.

History

In 1859 Thaddeus Parris, a Mexican–American War veteran for whom the community was named built an ox-turned gristmill{{cite web| url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dim02|title= Milling|publisher= Texas State Historical Association |accessdate=March 20, 2013}} at this location. This attracted settlers of the area during the next decade and until sometime in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century Parris remained a community center for area farmers.{{cite web| url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hvp11|title= Parris, Texas|publisher= Texas State Historical Association |accessdate=March 17, 2013}}

Further reading

  • Collin County Genealogical & Historical Records, Probate Minutes - 1871-1879 - Volume B-1 - pp 47–50, Estate of Thaddeus Parris [http://www.collincotxhistdoc.info/probate-minutes/1871-1879-volb-1-00.php]
  • Collin County Genealogical & Historical Records, Probate Minutes - 1871-1879 - Volume B-1 - pp 51–82, Estate of Thaddeus Parris [http://www.collincotxhistdoc.info/probate-minutes/1871-1879-volb-1-01.php]

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