Editing Kosse, Texas (section)

=== Arrival of the Houston & Texas Central Railway ===
Following the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], the area was in the planned route of the [[Houston and Texas Central Railway]] (H&TC) which was being constructed to link Houston to Dallas, Denison and the Red River.  The H&TC set aside one acre of land along the rail line two miles west of Eutaw as a townsite, and named it for chief engineer Theodore Kosse.  For several months in late 1870 and early 1871, Kosse was the northernmost terminus of the railway, and the population briefly boomed.  But by the spring of 1871, the rail line had been extended further north to the new terminus of Groesbeck and Kosse's population was considerably reduced. By 1873, ''Logan's Railway Business Directory'' noted that Kosse "contains about 200 inhabitants and is doing little business. When it was the terminus it was a thriving place, now its glory has faded. Cattle constitute the bulk of shipments from here."<ref>{{Cite book|last=Logan|first=A. L.|title=Logan's Railway Business Directory|url=https://archive.org/details/logansrailwaybus00loga|publisher=A. L. Logan & Co.|year=1873|location=St. Louis, MO|pages=[https://archive.org/details/logansrailwaybus00loga/page/106 106]}}</ref>