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Tehuacana's name comes from the Tawakoni Indians who once lived in the area, and its first post office, opened in 1847, was called Tewockony Springs.

The town sits in the Tehuacana Hills, among the highest ground between Dallas and Houston, at an altitude of about 661 feet.

Tehuacana Academy opened in 1852, beginning the town's long career as a small college town.

In 1869 the Cumberland Presbyterian Church founded Trinity University in Tehuacana, on 1,520 acres donated by local rancher John Boyd.

Trinity University stayed in Tehuacana until 1902, when it moved to Waxahachie.

The Methodist Protestant Westminster College then took over the campus, and in 1916 it became one of the first junior colleges in Texas.

Westminster merged into Southwestern University in 1942 and the college closed in 1950, though a Westminster junior college and Bible institute later operated on the site until 1971.

Texas Hall, the college's main building erected in 1871, still stands on the old campus.

Tehuacana incorporated in 1890 and the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railway arrived in 1903, though the line was abandoned in 1942; the town's population peaked at 615 in the mid-1920s.

The 2020 census counted 228 residents in Tehuacana, down from 307 people in 132 households in 2000.