The History Of Canton & Van Zandt County
 Van Zandt County in Northeast Texas is located about 5 miles east of Dallas and
is the gateway to the Hardwoods and Piney Woods of East Texas.
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The site which would become Canton was surveyed
as early as 1840. However, no settlement was made until 1850, when the town was laid out and named by settlers moving from Old Canton in Smith County.
  
   
When the Texas and Pacific Railway built across the county in 1872, it missed Canton by 10 miles, and citizens of Wills Point persuaded the county officials to move the county seat there.
   

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In 1877, the resultant dispute led armed residents
of Canton to march on Wills Point to get the county records back, and the county judge wired Governor Richard B. Hubbard for aid. The Supreme Court of
Texas ultimately decided in favor of Canton retaining
the title. Unwilling to use the railroad at Wills Point,

Canton businessmen instead established Edgewood 10 miles to
the northwest of town, and subsequently built an extension to the railroad at a siding formerly called Stevenson. Canton was finally incorporated
in 1919.
 
 
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