New Hope was a town in eastern
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(not to be confused with the town of
New Hope, Texas
New Hope is a town in Collin County, Texas, United States. The population was 614 at the 2010 census.
New Hope is a class B town and has an aldermanic form of government, under State of Texas general law. The mayor and five aldermen meet once a ...
in
Collin County) that was later incorporated into
Sunnyvale, Texas, United States.
New Hope was founded in the 19th century. Eventually it became quite large and was the main rival of neighboring
Mesquite
Mesquite is a common name for several plants in the genus '' Prosopis'', which contains over 40 species of small leguminous trees. They are native to dry areas in the Americas.
They have extremely long roots to seek water from very far under gr ...
. In addition to a significant population the town had a newspaper called the ''New Hope News'', a post office, a school, a baseball club, several stores, and an annual fair called Gala Days.
New Hope was a bustling town until 1921, when a storm blew much of it away. After that and for the length of its remaining history, it remained stagnant and never had the same glory as it did before the storm.
In the year 1953, the towns of New Hope,
Long Creek, and
Hattersville joined to create one town,
Sunnyvale.
In Sunnyvale today, some remainders of New Hope are still standing: several old houses, some which are used as households today; the old New Hope schoolhouse; Kearney's Store, which sits on the site of the old Lander's mercantile store where Gala Days used to be held.
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Sunnyvale, Texas
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