The American Cyclopędia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge
edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana 
1874

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FREESTONE, an E. central county of Texas, bounded E. by Trinity river and
intersected by Pecan creek; area 900 sq. m.; pop in 1870, 8,139, of whom 3,368
were colored.  It is heavily timbered.  The soil is fertile and well watered.
Mineral springs exist.  The chief productions in 1870 were 197,431 bushels of
Indian corn, 26,015 of sweet potatoes, and 6,465 bales of cotton.  There were
3,640 horses, 4,931 milch cows, 14,539 other cattle, and 18,437 swine.
Capital, Fairfield.

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