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899
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$34,118
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America/Chicago
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Wells, TX - History
We would like to provide the residents of Wells a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Wells Home page. The Wells Home page provides as much information as possible on Wells. Knowing Wells’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Wells’s Home page, you will also find Wells’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Wells has a population of 899. 45.1% of Wells’s inhabitants are Male, and 54.9 are female. 58.1% of Wells is married and 51.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $51,820, and the average rent is $594. Household median income in Wells is $34,118, and the individual median income is $18,333. Wells’s Ethnic is the following: White(78.9%), Black(13%), Hispanic(10.8%), Other(6.2%), Multiple(1.9%).
Wells is at the junction of U.S. Highway 69 and Farm Road 1247, twenty-three miles south of Rusk in extreme southern Cherokee County. It was established in 1885 as a stop on the newly constructed Kansas and Gulf Short Line Railroad and was named for Maj. E. H. Wells, a civil engineer for the railroad.
A post office opened in 1886, and by 1890 the town had a sawmill, a hotel, a Methodist church, three general stores, and a population of fifty. Shortly after the railroad was completed, the state penitentiary established a satellite camp just outside the town to produce charcoal for the state-run iron works at Rusk.
The presence of the prison camp discouraged many potential settlers, and the town's population remained small until after 1900, when the charcoal camp was closed. During the 1910s, however, the town boomed; the First State Bank of Wells opened in 1913, and the following year the population reached 300.
During the 1920s the community incorporated, and in 1936 Wells reported 475 residents and twenty businesses. The population continued to grow after World War II, rising to 761 by 1990. Over the same period, however, the number of businesses has gradually declined, falling from twenty-six in 1952 to seven in 1990.
Farming, cattle ranching, and lumber are the principal industries.
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