![]() ![]() An annual fair is held there and the collections are taken from there to Tyler and Dallas Fairs and the Ben Wheelerites carry off many prizes.īy 1920 the little town that could, had. ![]() Well-to-do farmers make up the citizenship in that immediate locality. It is surrounded by gushing springs of pure limpid water. The town derived its name from a pioneer mail carrier, Benjamin Wheeler. It is on Dixie Highway, has a daily mail from Chandler on the Cotton Belt Railroad, has a well-kept little bank in a substantial brick building, two churches, two cotton gins, one corn mill, a telephone system, good substantial, well-kept stocks of merchandise are offered to the public. Located in a rich farming country, where can be produced a greater variety of stuff than any other part of the county. Situated in central southeast Van Zandt County is a promising little burg. Clough later built the first store in Ben Wheeler, also he and his neighbors built a school house on his land.īy the year 1919, Whitworth Manning, wrote in the first published history of the area: Clough’s home, being about half-way between those two towns provided Ben Wheeler a place to stay overnight and water for his mail-toting mule. Wheeler had been contracted to carry mail from Canton to Edom, Texas. Only nineteen years earlier (1876) a post office was established in the home of George W. “Our desire is to cultivate an educational sentiment in the community, and in order that we may accomplish this essential, we ask the hearty co-operation of the entire community.” ![]() Our people are cultured and hospitable, and welcome students to their homes and churches, Baptist and Methodist. As the Annual Announcement of the Alamo Institute, a four year college located in downtown Ben Wheeler described, “We have a quiet little village in which no intoxicants are sold. The future, if not bright looked like the towns along the railroad in 1895. In turn, the very fabric of society and a sense of community were slowly but inexorably diminished. This consolidation of population in the metropolitan areas left fewer people to support local business and local schools. G.I.’s returning from the war moved with their families to the big cities. ![]()
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