Paris, Texas This article is about the town/city in Northeast Texas.
Paris, Texas .
Paris, Texas Historic downtown Paris Historic downtown Paris Paris, Texas is a town/city and governmental center of county of Lamar County, Texas, United States.
Following a tradition of American metros/cities named "Paris", the town/city commissioned a 65-foot (20 m) replica of the Eiffel Tower in 1993 and installed it in the square.
In 1998, presumably as a response to the 1993 assembly of a 60-foot (18 m) fortress in Paris, Tennessee, the town/city placed a enormous red cowboy hat up on its tower.
The current fortress is at least the second Eiffel Tower replica assembled in Paris; the first was constructed of wood and later finished by a tornado.
1.4 Paris Junior College By December 1840 the new county was organized, titled for Republic of Texas President Mirabeau B.
By September 1841, Wright's store was called Paris and served as the small-town postal office.
In August 1844, the county commissioners took Wright's offer of 50 acres and made Paris the county seat.
The region of present Lamar County was part of Red River County amid the Republic of Texas.
Wright, who had served in the Third Congress as a representative from Red River County, was a primary promoter of the beginning of Lamar County, which was established by act of the Fifth Congress of the Republic on December 17, 1840.
The county encompassed much of what was later separated as Delta County in 1870, an act that reduced Lamar County to its present size.
The initial governmental center of county was Lafayette, a small settlement positioned several miles northwest of the site of present-day Paris.
In 1842 the Texas Congress passed a law requiring each governmental center of county to be positioned inside five miles of the geographic center of the county.
The following year, George Wright offered to donate fifty acres for a town, if the county commissioners would make it the county seat.
The commissioners accepted, and titled the town as Paris.
Paris was on the Central National Road of the Republic of Texas, which went from San Antonio through Paris to cross the Red River.
By the time of Civil War, Paris had 700 residents.
In 1861 Lamar County was one of the several Texas counties to vote against secession, though many of its people would later serve in the Confederate Army.
Burned structures encompassed the Federal Building and Post Office, Lamar County Courthouse and Jail, City Hall, most commercial buildings, and a several churches. The 1916 fire started around 5 p.m.
The fire was brought under control on the morning on March 22 by small-town firefighters and those from encircling cities in Texas and Hugo, Oklahoma.
In 1920 the two Arthur brothers, also black, were lynched at the county fairgrounds in Paris.
Fifteen American municipalities are titled "Paris;" many have erected replicas of the Eiffel Tower to pay homage to the town/city in Paris, France.
Both Paris of Texas and Paris, Tennessee assembled Eiffel Tower replicas in 1993: Tennessee's was assembled at Christian Brothers University (in Memphis) and was 60 feet tall; the one in Texas was assembled by the Boilermakers 902, a workforce union representing workers of the former Babcock & Wilcox Paris Plant, and was 65 feet tall.
In 1998 when Tennessee moved its fortress to their town/city of Paris, they heightened it to 70 feet.
Paris, Texas, claimed to be "The second biggest Paris in the World." Paris Union Station, opened in 1912, served Frisco, Santa Fe and Texas Midland passenger trains Paris has long been a barns center.
Louis - San Francisco Railway in 1887; the Texas Midland Railroad (later Southern Pacific) in 1894; and the Paris and Mount Pleasant (Pa-Ma Line) in 1910.
Paris Union Station, assembled 1912, served Frisco, Santa Fe and Texas Midland passenger trains until 1956.
Today, the station is used by the Lamar County Chamber of Commerce and serves as the research library for the Lamar County Genealogical Society. After the fire, Scott brought the architect Wees back to Paris to redesign the historic downtown area. Paris Junior College Paris Junior College's Louis B.
Paris Junior College was established in 1924.
Its jewelry technologies department, now known as The Texas Institute of Jewelry Technology at Paris Junior College, is internationally recognized as one of the premier jewelry schools in the world.
Paris Junior College Dragon's Men's basketball team won the NJCAA nationwide championship in 2005.
Paris Junior College has a new women's dormitory that opened up in fall of 2012, along with a new multimillion Science and Mathematics building that opened in the spring of 2013.
The college has three campuses in Texas: the chief one in Paris, a large ground in Sulphur Springs, and another in Greenville.
From 1942 to 1945, the US Army directed Camp Maxey, 10 miles (16 km) north of Paris.
It was titled in honor of Samuel Bell Maxey, a primary general for the Confederacy in the American Civil War and later propel from Texas to the U.S.
In June 2008, when word came that over 600 American service personnel were coming to receive training for the war in Iraq, inhabitants of the town/city of Paris adopted them.
Paris, Texas was titled "Best Small Town in Texas" by Kevin Heubusch in his book The New Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities (1997). Since 1869, The Paris News has served as the journal in the town/city of Paris.
It circulates daily in the town/city and throughout Lamar County as well as in neighboring Delta County, Fannin County, Red River County and Choctaw County, Oklahoma.
Five airways broadcasts are licensed in the town/city of Paris: KZHN, KPLT (AM), KOYN, KBUS, KPLT-FM.
Paris is served by KXII, the low-power translator station KXIP-LD (channel 12) is in Paris.
African Americans in Paris were outraged and disappointed.
The United States Department of Justice Justice Community Relations Service worked to initiate a dialog between the competitions in the town. It was considered a failure when black complaints were met mostly by silent glares by whites. A 2009 protest rally over the Mc - Clelland case led to Texas State Police intervention to prevent ethnic groups from coming to blows. In 2007, a 14-year-old black girl was sentenced by a small-town judge to up to 7 years in a youth prison for shoving a hall monitor at Paris High School.
This sentencing disparity for actions of such different scale generated nationwide controversy and outrage. On orders of a special conservator, appointed by the State of Texas to investigate enigma with the state's juvenile justice practices, the black girl was released after serving one year. In 2009, some black workers at the Turner Industries plant in the town/city claimed that hangman's nooses, Confederate flags and racist graffiti were regular features of plant culture. At the same time, the United States Department of Education was conducting an investigation into allegations that black students in Paris's schools were disciplined more harshly than white students for similar offenses. In 2015, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ruled after an investigation that black workers at the Sara Lee Corporation plant in Paris (closed in 2011) were disproportionately exposed to hazards of asbestos, black mold, and other toxins.
It said that they were targets of ethnic slurs and racist graffiti. Some Paris inhabitants deny that the town has a race relations problem. Paris is positioned at 33 39 45 N 95 32 52 W (33.662508, 95.547692). According to the U.S.
Paris has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa in the Koeppen climate classification).
Paris is in USDA plant hardiness zone 8a for winter temperatures.
On April 2, 1982, Paris was hit by an F4 tornado that finished more than 1,500 homes, left ten citizens dead, 170 injured and 3,000 homeless.
Climate data for Paris, Texas In the past, Paris was a primary cotton exchange, and the county was advanced as cotton plantations.
While cotton is still farmed on the lands around Paris, it is no longer a primary part of the economy.
Paris' one primary hospital has two campuses: Paris Regional Medical Center South (formerly St.
Joseph's Hospital) and Paris Regional Medical Center North (formerly Mc - Cuistion Regional Medical Center).
Both campuses are now directed jointly under the name of the Paris Regional Medical Center, a division of Essent Healthcare.
5 Paris ISD 640 9 City of Paris 320 Note: PRMC is Paris Regional Medical Center Paris Public Library in July 2015 The Paris Independent School District In addition, Paris Junior College provides post-secondary education.
Texas A&M University-Commerce, a primary university of over 12,000 students, is positioned in the neighboring town/city of Commerce, 40 minutes southwest of Paris.
The Paris Public Library serves Paris, as well as the Lamar County Genealogical Society Library. Paris is represented in the Texas Senate by Republican Kevin Eltife, District 1, and in the Texas House of Representatives by Republican Erwin Cain, District 3.
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) operates the Paris District Parole Office in Paris. Paris is part of Texas congressional 4th district, represented by Republican John Ratcliffe.
The United States Postal Service operates the Paris Post Office. Historic Paris train station Texas 19.svg Texas 24.svg State Highway 19/State Highway 24 According to the Texas Transportation Commission, Paris is the second-largest town/city in Texas without a four-lane divided highway connecting to an Interstate highway inside the state.
Paris is served by two taxicab companies.
Paris Eiffel Tower 70-foot Paris Eiffel Tower with the red cowboy hat at its summit.
Trail de Paris multi-use recreational facility along abandoned barns corridor The second Saturday of every October amateur radio enthusiasts (ham radio operators) come to the town/city in large numbers to attend the annual Paris, Texas Hamfest.
On October 4, 1955, early in his career, Elvis Presley performed at the Boys Club Gymnasium at 1530 1st Street Northeast in Paris as a member of the Louisiana Hayride Jamboree tour.
Annual Paris Art Fair sponsored by the YWCA Paris and Lamar County.
Each July the Tour de Paris, a bicycle tour that brings many tourists, both American and European.
The film Paris, Texas (1984), by German director Wim Wenders, was titled after the city, but was not set there.
Marsha Farney, Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives from Williamson County; reared in Paris, graduated from Paris Junior College, and taught school in Paris in 1990s Floyd, three-term Democratic state senator; pioneer of the Texas Farm-to-market road fitness and an initial founder of Paris Junior College Horace Ladymon, department store owner, Beall-Ladymon; born in Paris in 1929; resides in Shreveport, Louisiana Marshal to serve west of the Mississippi River, was based in Paris for four years in the late 19th century.
"The Paris Fire of 1916 Texas State Historical Marker".
"Scott Mansion Texas State Historical Marker".
"Paris, Texas, race relations dialogue turns into dispute".
"Justice Department improve dialogue on race set for Paris, Texas".
"Paris officers remember deadly tornado of 1982".
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