Texas Historical Marker

Cottondale

Paradise · Wise County · placed 1975

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Wise County, Texas

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Area's oldest settlement. Platted by landowner B. F.

Banks, who also gave lots for public use named, 1875, for lush growth of cotton planted by John Bridges, blacksmith, to finance a trip to Alabama to bring back his bride. Paradise took over town's post office, (1912); school (1933).

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