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| | Handbook of Texas Online: |
 | | West is on Interstate Highway 35 eighty miles south of Dallas in northeastern McLennan County. |
 | | The present townsite was established in 1881 and the name was changed to West, in honor of Thomas M. West, prominent businessman, landowner, and postmaster of the new post office established in 1882. |
 | | By 1900 West had a fire department, a weekly newspaper, a bank, a cotton mill, several cotton gins, a hotel, a school system, several churches, and a population estimated by some as high as 2,000. |
| www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/WW/hgw6.html (507 words) |
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