Forreston

Forreston is on U.S. Highway 77 and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas tracks eight miles south of Waxahachie in south central Ellis County. At first the site was called Howe's Settlement, after William R. Howe, who arrived around 1843 and is credited as being the area's first settler. Thus Forreston can lay claim to being the oldest settlement in Ellis County. By the mid-1840s a community had been established under the name Chambers Creek, so named by Gen. Edward H. Tarrant in honor of his friend Gen. Thomas J. Chambers qv