Since Memphis was without a depot and trains did not stop there, certain citizens sought to remedy that situation by smearing the tracks with lye soap. County officers were elected in June, and a school district was subsequently formed. Memphis won the election with a total of 84 votes.
Memphis was engaged in a heated county seat battle with neighboring Salisbury and Lakeview. In the meantime, Hall County was being organized. The name was submitted and accepted, and a post office was established on September 12, 1890, with Robertson as postmaster. Finally, as the story goes, Reverend Brice, while in Austin, happened to see a letter addressed by accident to Memphis, Texas, rather than Tennessee, with the notation "no such town in Texas". Several suggestions were submitted to federal postal authorities, but with negative results.
For a time, the new town was without a name. A rooming house (later the Memphis Hotel), a general store, a drugstore, and several residences were soon erected. Woods, Jr., of Dallas, formed a townsite company and presented a plat early in January 1890. Robertson, who had a dugout near Parker Creek. This land had been previously owned by W. Montgomery purchased land for a townsite north of Salisbury on the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway. Highway 287, State Highway 256, and Farm Road 1547, in the northeastern part of the county. Memphis, Texas, the county seat of Hall County, is at the junction of U.S.
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