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Submit Wiki Content Report a Problem. Falls County , Texas. George Elam, a Republican, was elected county judge in and , perhaps with the help of the enfranchised freedmen. He could not be considered an outsider, however, since he fought in the Confederate army from Falls County. At the beginning of his term county taxes rose drastically. In Falls County was totally "redeemed" from Republican rule with the election of E. After Reconstruction the county voted Democratic longer than most Texas counties.
In the Republicans carried Falls County by only twenty-four votes, After that, the county did not vote Republican in a presidential election for a century. The Democrats won 82 percent of the vote in the election. The county then returned to its Democratic practices, voting overwhelmingly for Jimmy Carter in and County voters helped Republican Ronald Reagan win Texas in but returned to the Democratic party in and , and By the early twenty-first century, however, the county's voters had shifted to the Republican camp, as George W.
Bush won solid majorities in the county in and Between and Falls County prospered, and its population gradually increased from 16, to 38, The economy remained primarily agricultural with diverse crops and livestock raising. The number of farms rose from 2, in to 6, in During this period cotton rose steadily from 12, to 61, bales, the largest crop ever. Five times as much poultry was raised by , and corn rose from , to 1,, bushels.
The Black population doubled during this fifty-year period but failed to keep pace with the White population. Blacks comprised 41 percent of the population in but only 32 percent by The Black population and White population remained on good terms, and in a Black county commissioner, Nelson Denson, was elected.
Transportation in Falls County relied on stagecoach lines and private transportation until the Reconstruction era. Until the middle s cattle were driven up to the Waco area to connect with the Chisholm Trail. The Houston and Texas Central Railroad became the first railroad through the county around It passed through Marlin and led to the establishment of the towns of Reagan and Perry. Two other railroads eventually passed through the county. When the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway came through in —92 it led to the founding of Rosebud, Travis, Lott, Chilton, and Satin, which in turn resulted in a shift of the county's population from east to west.
The first automobile appeared in the county in By the road which eventually became U. Highway 77 became a state highway. In the other major road in the county became State Highway 7. In an airport shed was built to house three airplanes. Promoters put on an airshow near Marlin, but it was closed one year later when a female pilot was killed in a crash.
Marlin was the largest town, with a population of 4,, just over 10 percent of the county's total population. Vital Statistics, annual : Births, ; deaths, ; marriages, 85; divorces, Agriculture : Stocker cattle, cow-calf operations, corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, cotton, wheat, oats, goats, sheep, horses. Some cotton irrigated. Other towns include: Chilton ; Golinda ; Lott ; Reagan ; Rosebud 1, feed, fertilizer processing, clothing manufactured; Satin Part of Bruceville-Eddy 1, The old Church of the Visitation in Westphalia burned in
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