ELLIS COUNTY
KING COTTON COUNTY OF THE WORLD
For centuries, farmers around the world have cultivated cotton, from Egypt to the Mississippi Delta. “Today, the world uses more cotton than any…
Ellis County was bypassed by early Spanish and Mexican explorers in the days before the Republic. It wasn’t until 1842 that the first white person, William Ross Howe (?-1847), settled in the area on…
In the latter part of the 19th century, the Shawnee Trail was the first north-south cattle trail and the farthest east of the four great cattle-driving trails from Texas to northern markets, the…