Editing Normangee, Texas (section)

==History==
The railroads were pushing the frontier westward and the [[Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway]] (T&BV) and the [[Houston and Texas Central Railway]] (H&TC) were built between [[Houston, Texas|Houston]] and [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]] in 1904–1905, but the railways passed through Robert Rogers' land, approximately two miles west of Rogers Prairie. So on January 26, 1907, S.B. Phillips filed for record a plat of the new town, Normangee, located in the southwestern corner of the Robert Rogers land grant at the junction of the [[Old San Antonio Road]] and the two new railroads. When the H&TC was being built through this region, railroad officials placed a town every eight miles. A small community, known as Rogers Prairie, existed two miles east of where the railroad line was built.  Norman G. Kittrell was the county judge of Leon County at the time. The railroad named the new town after Judge Kittrell.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hln25 | title=TSHA &#124; Normangee, TX }}</ref>  Since there was already a [[Norman, Oklahoma]], the town renamed itself Normangee.<ref>Temple, Robert D. ''Edge Effects: The Border-Name Places'', (2nd edition, 2009), iUniverse, {{ISBN|978-0-595-47758-6}}, page 324.</ref>