Avalon is an

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in southern Ellis County,

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, United States.

History

Avalon is primarily a farming community located at the intersection of FM 55 & TX Hwy 34 in southern Ellis County. Avalon still operates one of the county's few

cotton gin A cotton gin—meaning "cotton engine"—is a machine that quickly and easily separates cotton fibers from their seeds, enabling much greater productivity than manual cotton separation.. Reprinted by McGraw-Hill, New York and London, 1926 (); a ...

s. Prior to the Great Depression and current through today, Avalon and its surrounding rural farmland produces much of the cotton output for Ellis County. For a period of time in the 1830s, 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 ''

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'' were shot just north of Avalon. Avalon has had a 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 with The head coach John De La Garza of the Avalon high school football team has won many games and brought them a long way in this football season.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 the

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project. Government funding for the project was pulled, killing the project. The

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serves area students. On April 25, 2011, an EF0 tornado touched down in Avalon causing minor damage. List of tornadoes in the 2011 Super Outbreak#cite note-NWSFortWorthApr25-26-9

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* Unincorporated communities in Ellis County, Texas Unincorporated communities in Texas Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex {{EllisCountyTX-geo-stub