However, these damaged buildings were purchased by developers in the hopes of revitalizing the Downtown Historical District. The damage caused by the EF1 impacted the National Register Historic District and many of the other businesses in town, some of which are pending demolition. between Downtown and Interstate 45 was hit by a tornado in the May 15–17, 2013 tornado outbreak, rendering 4 homes uninhabitable and damaging as many as 55 businesses. Since then, citizens of Ennis have been able to experience the best of two worlds, participation in the attractions of a large, dynamic city and the familiar street-scape of a unique, nurturing community. Moreover, the city was connected to Dallas to the north and Houston to the South by Interstate Highway 45. The sons and daughters of early settlers had developed new traditions like the National Polka Festival and the Ennis Bluebonnet Trail.
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Elegant houses along “the Avenue” and north were accompanied by dozens of Folk Victorian houses and Craftsman style bungalows.īy mid-twentieth century Ennis had become a modern community with schools, three movie theaters, several drugstores, banks and automobile dealerships. Residents built beautiful churches of many different denominations and numerous fraternal organizations met regularly. Railroads and cotton produced the wealth that could be seen in the residential development of the city. The Ennis Chamber of Commerce adopted the slogan 'Where Railroads and Cotton Fields Meet." By 1920, a total of 152,601 bales of cotton were ginned and shipped from Ellis County, the most of any county in America.
The railroad also led to the expansion of the cotton industry, providing access to foreign and domestic markets through the port of Houston.
The city built the first of three lakes for this purpose in 1892, followed by another in 1895, and the last in 1940 One condition of the agreement was that as long as Ennis was able to furnish water the shops could not be moved from the community. The machine shops and roundhouse employed several hundred men. In 1891, the H&TC chose Ennis as its northern division headquarters in an agreement requiring that Ennis provide water for the railroad. Many of the settlers came from the war-torn Confederate States of America and others came from the war-ravaged European nations that later became Czechoslovakia. Between 18, the population grew from 300 to 3,000.
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