Tag: Waxahachie
Waxahachie /ˌwɒksəˈhætʃi/ is a city in Ellis County, Texas, United States, and a southern suburb of Dallas. The population was 29,621 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Ellis County.
Waxahachie was the birthplace of Tom Blasingame, considered the oldest cowboy in the history of the American West, R&B; singer Tevin Campbell, Bill Ham (manager for ZZ Top), Byron Nelson, a professional golf legend and Academy Award winning director Robert Benton, who made his 1984 film “Places in the Heart” in his hometown. Bessie Coleman, the first female African-American pilot, moved to Waxahachie at age two, and was raised there; she was born in Atlanta, Texas. It was said that Edward (Chief Wahoo) McDaniel was from Waxahachie, but he was born in Bernice, Oklahoma.
In 1988 the area around Waxahachie was chosen as the site for the Superconducting Super Collider, which was to be the world’s largest and most energetic particle accelerator, with a planned ring circumference of 87.1 kilometers …