Jellico
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N 32° 56.237 W 097° 11.200
14S E 669525 N 3645793
This marker, on Southlake Blvd, in Southlake, Tarrant County, very near Keller, commemorates a town that no longer exists.
Waymark Code: WMWXB
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/30/2006
Views: 28
Index Entry: Jellico
Address: SH 1709 & 1938
City: Southlake
County: Tarrant
Subject Codes: GT;
Year Marker Erected: 1985
Designations: na
Marker Location: SH 1709 at SH 1938, next to large dead tree and Jellico Corners Plaza.
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 2748
Marker Text:
Robert Emmett Wilson came with his family to this area during the 1880s and built a general store near this site. The name Jellico was chosen for the community when a post office was established in 1898. The town was named after a town in Tennessee from which some of the settlers had immigrated. By 1895, Jellico had a cotton gin, blacksmith shop, grist mill, syrup press, and school. The town began to decline when cotton prices fell in 1907. Wilson's General Store closed in 1912, and the school was consolidated into another district in 1917. (1985)
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