Ennis, Texas Ennis, Texas The Emporium Building at the intersection of Ennis Avenue and Dallas St.
The Emporium Building at the intersection of Ennis Avenue and Dallas St.
In Downtown Ennis.
Location of Ennis, Texas Location of Ennis, Texas Ennis is a town/city in Ellis County, Texas, United States, positioned south of Dallas.
It is also home to the Bluebonnet Festival, the National Polka Festival, and a several National Hot Rod Association drag competitions at the Texas Motorplex, most prominently the AAA Texas NHRA Fall - Nationals.
Completed in 1916, Ennis High School directed from this building until the school relocated to its present-day locale in 1982.
After briefly serving as the city's Junior High, it is now known today as the Alamo Education Center, home to the school district's alternative education programs.
In 1872 the Houston and Central Texas Railroad (H&TC) appeared at the spot that would turn into Ennis.
The town/city is titled for Cornelius Ennis, an official of the barns .
Ennis served as Mayor of Houston (1856 57), and as a director of the Houston Tap and Brazoria Railway and H&TC. In 1891, the H&TC chose Ennis as its northern division command posts in an agreement requiring that Ennis furnish water for the barns .
The Ennis Chamber of Commerce adopted the slogan 'Where Railroads and Cotton Fields Meet." By mid-twentieth century Ennis had turn into a undivided community with schools, three movie theaters, a several drugstores, banks and automobile dealerships.
The sons and daughters of early pioneer had advanced new traditions like the National Polka Festival and the Ennis Bluebonnet Trail.
Since then, people of Ennis have been able to experience the best of two worlds, participation in the attractions of a large, dynamic town/city and the familiar street-scape of a unique, nurturing community. These revitalization plans were implemented in the Downtown Comprehensive Plan, and the town/city was re-admitted to the Texas Main Street Program in January 2015.
Ennis is in the northeastern region of Texas, in easterly Ellis County.
Route 287 curves around the south side of Ennis and leads northwest 15 miles (24 km) to Waxahachie, the Ellis County seat.
Texas State Highway 34 passes through the center of Ennis, dominant northeast 26 miles (42 km) to Kaufman and southwest 20 miles (32 km) to Italy.
Ennis has a total region of 28.2 square miles (73.0 km2), of which 27.6 square miles (71.6 km2) is territory and 0.54 square miles (1.4 km2), or 1.85%, is water. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Ennis has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. The town/city of Ennis has a City Commissioner/City Manager government type, with a several commissioners representing different departments of the town/city government in town/city council.
Ennis is home to the congressional office of US Representative Joe Barton, which is positioned inside Texas's 6th Congressional District of which he represents.
Ennis is also a part of Texas House District 10 represented by John Wray Ennis is the only incorporated town/city in the United States that still elects its City Marshal.
The election is held every two years with the winner being titled Chief of Police by the City Council and City Manager.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 30.4% under the age of 18, 10.6% from 18 to 24, 27.7% from 25 to 44, 18.5% from 45 to 64, and 12.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The town/city is home to the Ennis Independent School District, which consists of two early childhood centers, four elementary schools, two intermediate schools, one junior high, and Ennis High School.
There is also a contest to find who the Duke and Dutchess of Ennis will be for the year.
During the 3 day festival, the Ennis Polka Run takes place to help fund the Rotary Club and the Children's Reading Club of Ennis.
Ennis has an annual Texas Bluebonnet festival amid the month of April.
Ennis was designated by the 1997 State Legislature as the "Official Bluebonnet City of Texas" and home to the "Official Bluebonnet Trail of Texas." The Galaxy Drive-In Theater opened in 2004 in Garrett, Texas, just north of Ennis on I-45.
Army Corps of Engineers positioned 5 miles south of Ennis.
Ennis is home to the Texas Motorplex, a quarter-mile drag racing facility assembled in 1986 by former funny car driver Billy Meyer.
The Ennis Railroad and Cultural Heritage Museum is homed in the former Van Noy restaurant building.
Ennis' first bluebonnet trail was marked through this region in 1939.
Scenes from the documentary Flight of the Butterflies (2012) were filmed on Ennis' bluebonnet trails.
While on the lam after a series of robberies in the early 1930s, the gangster couple returned to their native Texas, stopping in Ennis on a several occasions. Ernest Tubb, the "Texas Troubadour", was born on a cotton farm outside of Ennis.
Rogers' parents were involved in a custody dispute, when her father abducted her from Kansas City and brought her to Ennis to live with his family.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001): Ennis city, Texas".
Ennis Historical Society.
Ennis Historical Society.
ENNIS, TX | The Handbook of Texas Online| Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).
Climate Summary for Ennis, Texas.
Texas Almanac: City Population History from 1850 2000.
Ennis Daily News.
City of Ennis official website Ennis Independent School District
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