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Paris, TX - History
We would like to provide the residents of Paris a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Paris Home page. The Paris Home page provides as much information as possible on Paris. Knowing Paris’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Paris’s Home page, you will also find Paris’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Paris has a population of 24814. 47.1% of Paris’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.9 are female. 38.7% of Paris is married and 49.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $84,358, and the average rent is $727. Household median income in Paris is $35,794, and the individual median income is $21,363. Paris’s Ethnic is the following: White(70.5%), Black(22.2%), Hispanic(9%), Multiple(4.1%), Asian(1.5%), Native(1.1%), Other(0.5%), Pacific(0.1%).
Present-day Lamar County was part of Red River County during the Republic of Texas. By 1840, population growth necessitated the organization of a new county. George Washington Wright, who had served in the Third Congress of the Republic of Texas as a representative from Red River County, was a major proponent of the new county.
The Fifth Congress established the new county on December 17, 1840, and named it after Mirabeau B. Lamar, who was the first Vice President and the second President of the Republic of Texas. Lamar County was one of the 18 Texas counties that voted against secession on February 23, 1861.In 1877, 1896, and 1916, major fires in the city forced considerable rebuilding.
The 1916 fire destroyed almost half the town and caused an estimated $11 million in property damage. The fire ruined most of the central business district and swept through a residential area. The burned structures included the Federal Building and Post Office, the Lamar County Courthouse and Jail, City Hall, most commercial buildings, and several churches.In 1893, black teenager Henry Smith was accused of murder, tortured, and then burned to death on a scaffold in front of thousands of spectators in Paris.
In 1920, two black brothers from the Arthur family were tied to a flagpole and burned to death at the Paris fairgrounds. The city has prominent memorials to the Confederacy, but has no acknowledgement of these killings.In 1943, the U.S. Supreme Court in Largent v. Texas struck down a Paris ordinance that prohibited a person from selling or distributing religious publications without first obtaining a city-issued permit.
The Court ruled that the ordinance abridged freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.Following a tradition of American cities named "Paris" (named after France's capital), the city commissioned a 65-foot-tall (20 m) replica of the Eiffel Tower in 1993 and installed it on site of the Love Civic Center, southeast of the town square.
In 1998, presumably as a response to the 1993 construction of a 60-foot-tall (18 m) tower in Paris, Tennessee, the city placed a giant red cowboy hat atop its tower. The current Eiffel Tower replica is at least the second one; an earlier replica constructed of wood was destroyed by a tornado.
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