Commerce, Texas (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commerce is a city in Hunt County, Texas, United States, located in rural North Texas. The population was 9,250 at the 2010 census. The city is home to Texas A&M University-Commerce, and is situated approximately 60 miles northeast of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, and 45 miles south of the Texas/Oklahoma border. Originally known as Cow Hill, the town was established in 1872 by merchant William Jernigin between the Middle and South Sulphur rivers on the rich, black gumbo prairie in northeast Hunt County. The town incorporated in 1885, and nine years later Prof. William L. Mayo moved East Texas Normal College from Cooper to Commerce after the school burned. Mayo continued as president of the college, now known as Texas A&M University-Commerce, until his death in 1917 and is buried on the campus grounds.