Avalon is an unincorporated community

Unincorporated area

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 in southern Ellis County

Ellis County, Texas

As of the census of 2000, there were 111,360 people, 37,020 households, and 29,653 families residing in the county. The population density was 118 people per square mile . There were 39,071 housing units at an average density of 42 per square mile...

, Texas

Texas

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, United States

United States

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History

Avalon is primarily a farming community located at the intersection of FM 55 & TX Hwy 34 in southern Ellis County, Texas. Avalon still operates one of the few county cotton gins. Prior to the depression and current through today, Avalon and its surrounding rural farmland produces much of the cotton output for Ellis County. In fact, for a period of time in the 1930's, Ellis County was the top producing cotton county in the world, in large part due to Avalon's output. Many of the cotton field scenes filmed in the movie Places in the Heart were shot just 2 miles north of Avalon. Avalon has had an established US Post Office since 1937. The town has both an elementary school and high school. In 2005, Avalon began play in the Texas Six Man Football program. Prior to this time, Avalon had been a basketball rich school, producing some of the finest Class B/1A basketball teams in the 1960s through 1990s. Avalon has also developed a fine baseball team producing several playoff appearances. In the late 1980s/early 1990s Avalon was at the center of Supercollider project. Government funding for the project was pulled, killing the project.

The Avalon Independent School District

Avalon Independent School District

Avalon Independent School District is a public school district based in the community of Avalon, Texas .In 2009, the school district was rated "recognized" by the Texas Education Agency....

serves area students.