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Decatur, TX - History
We would like to provide the residents of Decatur a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Decatur Home page. The Decatur Home page provides as much information as possible on Decatur. Knowing Decatur’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Decatur’s Home page, you will also find Decatur’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Decatur has a population of 6976. 44.8% of Decatur’s inhabitants are Male, and 55.2 are female. 50.4% of Decatur is married and 65% own their own home. The Average Home price is $181,301, and the average rent is $955. Household median income in Decatur is $63,033, and the individual median income is $33,729. Decatur’s Ethnic is the following: White(89%), Hispanic(35.9%), Other(5.5%), Black(3.5%), Multiple(1.3%), Asian(0.4%), Native(0.3%).
By the late 1860s, several stores and a hotel had been established. In 1882, the Fort Worth and Denver Railway reached the town, and Decatur was added to the Butterfield Overland mail route. In 1881, the Wise County Old Settlers Reunion held their first meeting. This has become an annual tradition in Decatur, and the reunion continues to take place during the last full week of July. Decatur Baptist College (now Dallas Baptist University) was established in Decatur in 1898.
It was the first two-year institution of higher education in Texas. In 1965, the college moved to Dallas to be in a larger population center. The former Administration Building now houses the Wise County Heritage Museum. It is one of five sites in Decatur listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Wise County Courthouse was designed by James Riely Gordon, the master architect of Texas courthouses.
Completed in 1896, the building is an example of Gordon's Signature Plan. He used corner entrances (making for short halls) to draw in the breeze, which was pulled up through a central atrium like a chimney, providing excellent air circulation. The exterior is Texas red granite (like the Capitol) with terra cotta ornamentation.
The almost pyramidal mass refers to 1,000-year-old churches in the south of France. The building has been praised, with its "sister" courthouse in Waxahachie, as "the zenith of Gordon's Richardsonian Romanesque work". It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1962, Eddie Wayne Hill, lead guitarist for Tommy & the Tom Toms, and drummer Joel Colbert, were killed when their convertible collided head-on with a gravel truck on State Highway 114 south of Decatur.
Country singer Charley Pride was more fortunate, surviving a mid-air crash with another plane over Decatur in 1980, though two people died in the crash.
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