The New Student's Reference Work/Greenville, Texas

Greenville, Texas, county-seat of Hunt County, 51 miles northeast of Dallas. It is the tradecenter for an agricultural and stockraising region. Its industries comprise flour and cotton-seed oil mills, cotton compresses, stock-yards and machine-shops. It has good schools, and is the seat of Burleson College (Baptist). The city owns and operates the electric light plant, and has the service of three railroads. Population 8,850.