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Coppell takes its name from a New York railroad financier
Coppell, Texas
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Farmers settled around Grapevine Springs in the 1840s, on ground where Sam Houston's party camped during the 1843 treaty talks. The Cotton Belt opened a stop there in 1889 called Gibbs Station, for a former lieutenant governor of Texas. A year later the town changed its name again to Coppell, after George Coppell, the New York banker who held bonds on the railroad running through it.
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