GREENVILLE

greenville, a city and the county-seat of hunt county, texas, u.s.a., near the headwaters of the sabine river, 48 m. n.e. of dallas. pop. (1900) 6860, of whom 114 were foreign-born and 1751 were negroes; (1910) 8850. it is served by the missouri, kansas & texas, the st louis south-western and the texas midland railways. it is an important cotton market, has gins and compresses, a large cotton seed oil refinery, and other manufactories, and is a trade centre for a rich agricultural district. the city owns and operates its electric-lighting plant. it is the seat of burleson college (baptist), founded in 1893, and 1 m. from the city limits, in the village of peniel (pop. 1908, about 500), a community of "holiness" people, are the texas holiness university (1898), a holiness orphan asylum and a holiness press. greenville was settled in 1844, and was chartered as a city in 1875. in 1907 the texas legislature granted to the city a new charter establishing a commission government similar to that of galveston.