History of Venus

Venus, Texas, rose from the cornfields on the Blackland Prairie of far northeastern Johnson County during the 1880s, at the junction of the International Great Northern and the Gulf, Colorado and Sante Fe railroads.  Originally known as Gossip, then Midway, it incorporated under the name Venus in 1903 upon 80 acres owned by founder J.C Smyth, becoming one of Johnson County's most prosperous cities and The Cotton Capital of Texas.