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Map of central Dallas c. 1871. In 1871, railroads were beginning to approach the area and Dallas city leaders did not intend to stand idly and be left out. They paid the Houston and Central Texas Railroad US$5,000 to shift its route 20 miles (32 km) to the west and build its north–south tracks through Dallas, rather than through Corsicana as
In 1900 Sam Street's map of Dallas County showed Pleasant Grove as a small community with a store. In 1916 the first brick schoolhouse was built. In 1937 Pleasant Grove formed its own school district, which by the late 1940s had fourteen buildings. Due to a post-World War II housing boom, the population grew from 120 to 3,500 between 1943 and 1952.
John Neely Bryan, looking for a good trading post to serve Native Americans and settlers, first surveyed the Dallas area in 1839. [1] Bryan, who shared Sam Houston's insight into the wisdom of Native American customs, must have realized that Caddo trails he came across intersected at one of the few natural fords for hundreds of kilometers along the wide Trinity floodplain.
Dallas High School/Crozier Tech [23] December 13, 2000 2214 Bryan Street February 20, 1996 vacant Dallas Power and Light Building [24] January 5, 1999 1506 Commerce Street residential Dallas Tent and Awning Building [25] March 21, 1995 2401 Commerce Street residential Davis Building [26] May 27, 1998 1309 Main Street January 18, 2006 residential
The Caddo inhabited the Dallas area before it was settled by Europeans. All of Texas became part of the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Spain in the 16th century. The area was also claimed by the French, but in 1819 the Adams-Onís Treaty officially placed Dallas well within Spanish territory by making the Red River the northern boundary of New Spain.
False front commercial buildings in Greenhorn, Oregon, 1913. Western false front architecture or false front commercial architecture is a type of commercial architecture used in the Old West of the United States. Often used on two-story buildings, the style includes a vertical facade with a square top, often hiding a gable roof.
The Vault is located at 320 E. Jefferson Blvd., Room 314, Dallas, Texas, 75203. The Hidden City: Oak Cliff, Texas, by Bill Minutaglio and Holly Williams (Dallas: Elmwood Press and The Old Oak Cliff Conservation League, 1990), focuses on the earlier history of Oak Cliff and mentions Wynnewood only in passing.
Rustic Style architecture in Texas. Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. N. National Park Service rustic in Texas (7 P)