Business View Magazine | April 2019

171 TEXAS ing the line's northern terminus. On June 8, 1872 this site was established as the City of Ennis. The namesake of the town was Corne- lius Ennis, an official of the Railroad. Over the next several decades, Ennis became a significant center of trade and cotton farm- ing. By 1920, a total of 152,601 bales of cotton were ginned and shipped from Ellis County, the most of any county in America. The Ennis Chamber of Commerce adopted the slogan “Where Railroads and Cotton Fields Meet." These two industries - trade and cotton pro- duction - produced immense wealth for the community, which could be seen in the resi- dential development of the city. Lawyers, doc- tors, businessmen, and other wealthy residents built elegant houses in the northwestern part of the city, which would eventually become a part of the Templeton-McCanless Residential Historic District.