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Athens of Texas

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The Athens of Texas is a nickname that has been coined to describe several major cities in Texas including: This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are sometimes known by, officially and unofficially, to locals, outsiders or their tourism boards. ...

There is also a city called Athens in Northeast Texas. Marshall, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Sherman is a city located in Grayson County, Texas. ... Waco is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas. ... Athens is a city located in Henderson County, Texas. ... Northeast Texas as defined by the North East Texas Tourism Council. ...

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Athens: Weather and Much More from Answers.com (6191 words)
The main landmark of Athens is the acropolis (412 ft/126 m high), which dominates the city and on which stand the remains of the Parthenon, the propylaea, and the Erechtheum.
Athens was the leading city in Greece during the greatest period of Greek civilization during the 1st millennium BC.
Athens sprawls across the central plain of Attica, which is bound by Mount Aegaleo in the west, Mount Parnitha in the north, Mount Penteli in the northeast, Mount Hymettus in the east, and the Saronic Gulf in the southwest.
Handbook of Texas Online: (634 words)
Athens, the "Black-Eyed Pea Capital of the World," is located thirty-five miles west of Tyler on State highways 19 and 31 and U.S. Highway 175 at the center of Henderson County.
The county seat of Henderson County was first Buffalo (1846), then Centerville by election (1848), and finally Athens (1850); neither of the first two county seats was within the new county boundaries delineated in 1850.
Athens was first incorporated in 1856, and a mayor and city marshall were elected in 1874; but the town, in one historian's words, "never moved a peg" until 1900.
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