Whitton is located approximately eight miles southwest of Canton in Van Zandt County along Farm-to-Market Road 1651. The community was named for Elijah Whitton, an early settler from Alabama who built a log house that was still standing in the community in the 1990s. The community was sometimes listed as "Whiton," or "Whitten."
Whitton deeded land for a school in 1886. The Whitton, or Greenwood School, as it was later known, was consolidated with Canton Independent School District in 1949.[2]
In 1978 the former school building was converted into a community center.[2]
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^"US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. from the original on February 12, 2012. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
^ ab"Whitton, Tx". June 15, 2010. from the original on March 14, 2016. Retrieved October 17, 2013.
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