Telico
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Location in Texas
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| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Texas | ||
| County : | Ellis County | ||
| Coordinates : | 32 ° 22 ′ N , 96 ° 31 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) | ||
| Residents : | 95 (status: 2000) | ||
| Height : | 120 m | ||
| Postal code : | 75119 | ||
| Area code : | +1 972 | ||
Telico is an unincorporated community in Ellis County , Texas in the United States .
location
Telico is in east Ellis County, about ten kilometers east-northeast of Ennis on Farm-to-Market-Road 1181 and south of Texas State Highway 34 . Surrounding villages and towns are Rosser in the northeast, Peeltown in the east, Chatfield and Rice in the south, Alma in the southwest, Crisp in the west and Bristol in the northwest.
history
Before 1854, the settlement Trinity City was founded on the site where Telico is today , the name of which goes back to the nearby Trinity River . Shortly thereafter, the place was renamed Telico, this name can be traced back to the city of Tellico Plains in the state of Tennessee. The entrepreneur Thomas A. McCray founded the Telico Manufacturing Company in the village, which made clothes from cotton . In 1856 there were already several businesses and a hotel in the village. During the Civil War the company was dissolved and the village left. In 1867 a church for the Kirckpatrick Presbyterian Church was built near the former village of Telico.
At the beginning of the 1890s, a new settlement was founded west of the former village, which was renamed Telico. In 1894 the place got a post office, which was in operation until 1905. In 1909 the parish of Telico became Baptist. When the population of the settlement was first collected in the 1920s, Telico had 84 inhabitants. For 1952, there were five establishments in Telico. On October 13, 1960, Telico church was damaged by a tornado. The building was restored in the 1980s. In 2000 the place had about 95 inhabitants.
Personalities
- Clyde Barrow (1909-1934), criminal
Individual evidence
- ^ Telico. In: txfwgs.org , accessed April 24, 2020.
- ^ The Telico Church. Texas Historical Markers, accessed April 25, 2020.
- ^ History of Telico. Texas State Historical Association, accessed April 24, 2020.