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Location of Dallas County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Dallas County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Dallas County, Texas. There are 35 districts, 113 individual properties, and three former ...
The first sewers were built in the 1880s primarily for storm water drainage. At that time the street runoff and domestic sewage went directly to the Trinity River. Dallas Water Utilities began as the City of Dallas Waterworks in 1881 when the city purchased a privately owned water company that had been providing Dallas with water since the 1870s.
Cast iron pipes piled up near the construction site. Cast iron pipe is pipe made predominantly from gray cast iron.It was historically used as a pressure pipe for transmission of water, gas and sewage, and as a water drainage pipe during the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries.
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In 1889, Texas state senator R.S. Kimbrough tried to get a bill run through the state legislature to remove East Dallas' charter so it could be annexed into Dallas. It is generally believed that the act was to make Dallas the largest city in Texas; and the efforts in fact did make Dallas the largest city in Texas by the 1890 census. [3]
The West End Historic District of Dallas, Texas, is a historic district that includes a 67.5-acre (27.3 ha) area in northwest downtown, generally north of Commerce, east of I-35E, west of Lamar and south of the Woodall Rodgers Freeway.
The body of 66-year-old Teresa Gonzales was discovered on Oct. 25, around nine and a half miles away from where she fell through an open manhole cover on Oct. 22, according to her daughter Cynthia ...
The Sand Branch Community has long been considered one of the poorest areas in Dallas County. While the community was formed for freed Black Americans, some of the original families have been forced out by poor living conditions or forced to sell their land for as low as $300. A small portion of the original families continue to hold on to the ...