Waxahachie (ˌwɒksəˈhætʃi) is a city in Ellis County, Texas

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...

, United States

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, and a southern suburb of Dallas. The population was 21,426 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat

County seat

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 of Ellis County.

Waxahachie was the birthplace of Tom Blasingame

Tom Blasingame

Thomas Everett Blasingame, known as Tom Blasingame , was a Texas cowboy for seventy-three years. At ninety-one, he was still on the job at the JA Ranch south of Amarillo. Two days after Christmas in 1989, he dismounted his horse, Ruidosa, stretched out on the grass, folded his arms across his...

, considered the oldest cowboy

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 in the history

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 of the American West, R&B singer Tevin Campbell

Tevin Campbell

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, Bill Ham (manager for ZZ Top

ZZ Top

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), and Byron Nelson

Byron Nelson

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, a professional golf legend. It was said that Edward (Chief Wahoo) McDaniel was from Waxahachie, but he was born in Bernice, Oklahoma.

In 1988 the area around Waxahachie was chosen as the site for the Superconducting Super Collider

Superconducting Super Collider

The Superconducting Super Collider was a particle accelerator complex under construction in the vicinity of Waxahachie, Texas that was set to be world's largest and most energetic, surpassing the current record held by the Large Hadron Collider. Its planned ring circumference was with an energy...

, which was to be the world's largest and most energetic particle accelerator

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, with a planned ring circumference of 87.1 kilometres (54.1 mi).