HISTORY OF TEXAS,
from its Discovery and Settlement
with a description of its principal Cities and Counties, and the Agricultural,
Mineral, and Material Resources of the State.

by J. M. Morphis
New York:  United States Publishing Company
13 University Place
1875

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  ..."Fairfield was laid off in 1851, when Freestone county was severed from
  Limestone, and organized; it contains about 800 inhabitants, is a beautiful,
  healthy little town, and may justly feel proud of its excellent female 
  college, where the fair daughters of Texas seize and use the golden moments
  as they fly by and join the irrevocable past, in the improvement of their 
  minds and manners, as well as in the acquistion of learning and those gentle,
  winning, witching ways which please, fascinate and enslave the hearts of men.
  
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     In this section is also located Trinity College, one of the best in the 
  State, wherein the Cumberland Presbyterians educae their children..."