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The Corsicana Daily Sun is a morning daily newspaper published in Corsicana, Texas, covering Navarro County. It is now published two days a week (Tuesday and Saturday). It is owned by Community Newspaper Holdings Inc. The Daily Sun first published on March 2, 1895. In 2020, the newspaper celebrated its 125th anniversary.
Cameron Todd Willingham (January 9, 1968 – February 17, 2004) was an American man who was convicted and executed for the murder of his three young children by arson at the family home in Corsicana, Texas, on December 23, 1991.
The modern Oil City Iron Works plant grew from a small machine shop and foundry started in Corsicana, Texas in 1866 by John Winship (1826–86) to make parts for his cotton gin. He sold the operation in 1886 to businessmen Joseph Huey (1827–1904), James Garitty (1842–1925), and J. E. Whiteselle (1851–1915), who named it the Corsicana ...
James L. Collins (1883–1953) was a self-made oil man later turned banker and community philanthropist. Collins grew up in Weston, West Virginia.. In the early 1920s, at the time of the discovery of Powell oil field in eastern Navarro County, Texas, and the nearby Mexia field in Limestone County, he formed a partnership with R.L. Wheelock in Corsicana, Texas.
Corsicana is a city in and the county seat of Navarro County, Texas, United States. It is located on Interstate 45 , 50 miles southeast of Dallas . Its population was 25,109 at the 2020 census .
Online retailer Amazon said Wednesday that it's closing all seven of its warehouses in the Canadian province of Quebec in the next two months. The closures will eliminate about 1,700 permanent ...
Byron Cook is an American businessman, rancher, and Republican politician from his native Corsicana in east central Texas, who is a former state representative for District 8, which encompasses the counties of Anderson, Freestone, Hill, and Navarro. In October 2017, Cook announced that he would not seek re-election in 2018.
Navarro County (/ n ə ˈ v ær oʊ / nə-VARR-oh) [1] is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 52,624. [2] Its county seat is Corsicana. [3] The county is named for José Antonio Navarro, a Tejano leader in the Texas Revolution who signed the Texas Declaration of Independence.