Sachse, Texas
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| Latitude | 32° 58' 35" N 32.976389 |
| Longitude | 96° 35' 10" W -96.586111 |
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548/167 |
| Zip Code | 75048 |
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| GNIS FID | 1345812 |
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Sachse (/ˈsæksi/ SAK-see) was founded by William Sachse, a European immigrant from Herford, Prussia (included modern-day Germany, and parts of Poland and Eastern Europe), in 1845. Purchasing 640 acres (2.6 km2) from Collin County, Sachse erected the first cotton mills and gins in the county. After Sachse gave 100 feet of frontage through all of his holdings to the railroad in 1886, the railroad built a depot on the frontage and named the town Sachse. Since the depot was labeled 'Saxie', many old legal documents referred to the city as 'Saxie'. The flaw was later corrected. The word Sachse comes from the German word for Saxon.
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Sachse (Saxie) is on State Highway 78 three miles northeast of Garland and seventeen miles northeast of Dallas in far northeastern Dallas County and southern Collin County. The community was named for William C. Sachse and his wife, Elizabeth Straly Sachse. Mrs. Straly was a widow who received an original land grant of 320 acres patented in the Peters colony in 1846 and subsequently married Sachse, a native of Prussia. The settlement was formally established in 1886, when Sachse donated land for the right-of-way to the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway in exchange for naming the station Sachse. In that same year the town received a post office with the registered name of Saxie, which was changed in 1892 to Sachse. The population was 100 in 1900 and eighty in 1940, after which it rose steadily. In 1914 Sachse had its own bank, a Western Union station, three general stores, and telephone connections. It became the twenty-fifth incorporated town in Dallas County in April 1956, when the population was 250. By the 1980s the population had grown to more than 2,000, and Sachse had become a residential suburb of Garland. One business in town manufactured high-tech optical instruments. By 1990 Sachse spread into both Dallas and Collin counties and had a population of 5,000 and diverse businesses that included publishing and furniture making. The population grew to 9,751 in 2000.
Bibliography: Dallas Morning News, April 19, 1956. Dallas Times Herald, February 17, 1960. Daniel Hardy, Dallas County Historic Resource Survey (Dallas: Dallas County Historical Commission, 1982). Mary Allene Jones, Sachse Remembered (Wolfe City, Texas: Henington, 1990).
Handbook of Texas Online, Lisa C. Maxwell, “Sachse, TX”
