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Canton, Edgewood, Wills Point, Grand Saline, Fruitvale, Van, Ben Wheeler, Edom, and Mabank. Van Zandt and Kaufman Counties.
Canton Community
 No matter what your recreational interests are, you can find it here in Canton. The climate in Canton is perfect for many activities such as horseback riding, fishing, boating, camping, nature walks, hiking, and biking. Additionally there are a variety of unique attractions that call Canton home. First Monday Trade Days, which happens to be the largest flea market in the world and holds a wonderful place in history, and The Van Zandt County Fair is a fair that you wouldn’t want to miss.
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Edgewood Community
 Edgewood, Texas is another community where we serve real estate clients. The town of Edgewood is situated in Van Zandt County, Texas with a growing population estimated at 1,442 people as of July 2008. Edgewood is a pleasant town with nice homes in quaint neighborhoods having convenient amenities, shopping, schools and banking located nearby. Edgewood is about 9 miles north of Canton and 50 miles east of Dallas. Edgewood TX homes for sale is another option for buyers to consider in a small but growing town that’s away from the hustle and bustle of big city living.
Wills Point Community
Founded in 1873, Wills Point gets its name from its first American settler, William Wills, who had arrived in the area in about 1846 and built a cabin. The name 'point' may also derive from the shape of the original timberline near the Wills cabin, though there have been unfounded arguments that the name relates to the area's elevation. The layout of the city was the work of engineer General Grenville M. Dodge of the California Construction Company. The downtown streets were laid with red bricks upon packed sand in the 1920s by locals and remain in use. Downtown Wills Point has many of its original buildings that are over a hundred years old including the Wills cabin, a drug store, a dry good store, and a law office. Governor George W. Bush officially named Wills Point as the Bluebird Capital of Texas in 1995.
The Majestic Movie theater was opened in 1926 by Karl C. LyBrand and is still family operated by Karl C. Lybrand III. It is the oldest continuously operated movie theater in Texas.
The Majestic Theatre in downtown Wills Point
Wills Point is also proud of the Bruce & Human Drug Company, located on the corner of 4th Street and James, it was built in 1879 and is the oldest family owned drug store in Texas.
Edom Community
EDOM, TEXAS. Edom, at the crossing of Farm roads 279, 314, and 2339, sixteen miles southeast of Canton in southeast Van Zandt County, is the third oldest town in the county. It was first established several miles from its present site in 1849 and organized as a post office called Hamburg in 1852. In 1855 the post office moved one mile south of the present townsite. There it was renamed Edom for the name given to Esau in the book of Genesis. Local saloons filled with lumberjacks, freighters, and traders as the community became a stopover on the Porter's Bluff and Tyler Road. Sometime later the town was moved again to its present location. By 1860 it had a Baptist church, a Methodist church, a hotel, a Masonic lodge, a sawmill, a tanyard, a wagon factory, and a boot, shoe, and saddle shop. The Edom schools, which opened in 1866 with children of former Indian captive Cynthia Parker in attendance, enrolled 130 pupils in 1904. By 1876 a Grange was formed, and local farmers responded to worsening 1880s farm prices by forming a chapter of the Farmers' Alliance at nearby Red Hill on November 20, 1885. By 1914 the town had a cotton gin and four general stores. Railroad service failed to reach Edom, yet its population grew from 150 in the 1890s to between 200 and 300, where it remained from the 1920s to the present. Edom was an independent school district until 1966, when it was consolidated with Van. Artisans in pottery, silver jewelry, glassware, macrame, and leather crafts who settled in the town in the 1960s began Edom's annual arts and crafts fair in 1972. The community was incorporated in 1966 with 300 residents but lost its post office in 1976. In 1988 Edom had three businesses, the frontier Red Hill cemetery at or near the townsite, and an estimated 277 inhabitants. The population was 300 in 1990.
Grand Saline Community
Grand Saline is a city in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States. The population was 3,028 at the 2000 census. Grand Saline is the third largest city in Van Zandt County and is a part of the Greater Tyler/Longview area.
The name Grand Saline is taken from a large salt deposit in the area, currently mined by Morton Salt.
Van Community
Fruitvale Community
Ben Wheeler Community
Ben Wheeler is an unincorporated community in Van Zandt County, Texas, United States, twelve miles southeast of Canton (the county seat).
The area was first settled in the 1840s. Originally called Clough, the community was renamed Ben Wheeler in 1878. An 1893 fire destroyed most of the town's businesses. In 1896, the population reached 500, but a smallpox epidemic reduced the number of residents to 238 by 1904. Ben Wheeler had 18 businesses in 1943. This figure declined to only 9 by 1972, but rose to 22 by 1988.
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