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1890 home in Cedar Hill. Cedar Hill was founded circa 1846 by a small group of settlers from the Peters Colony. [5] They came from Kentucky, Alabama, and surrounding areas to arrive in the Dallas area of North Texas; 197 families and 184 single men settled in what is now Cedar Hill, making it the largest settlement in the area at the time.
Hillside Village (formerly Uptown Village at Cedar Hill) is a 615,000-square-foot (57,100 m 2) open-air regional shopping mall in Cedar Hill, Texas, a suburb of Dallas in the United States. It is located at FM 1382 and U.S. Highway 67 adjacent to Uptown Boulevard and Pleasant Run Road.
Much of the Monahans Sandhills are privately owned property. The state of Texas is operating a 99-year lease with the Sealy-Smith Foundation for the ranch on which most of the land of the state park is located; the park opened to the public in 1957, and the state park has leasehold rights to this parcel of the sand hills until 2056. [3]
Hill County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 35,874. [1] Its county seat is Hillsboro. [2] The county is named for George Washington Hill, secretary of war and secretary of the navy under the Republic of Texas. Hill County is part of Central Texas, though not included in the Texas Hill Country.
Cockrell Hill is a city in Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 4,193 at the 2010 census, [ 5 ] and 3,815 in 2020. It is completely surrounded by the city of Dallas .
Cedar Hill State Park is located on FM 1382 and the eastern shore of Joe Pool Lake in Cedar Hill, Texas , ten miles southwest of Dallas. The park was acquired in 1982 and was opened in 1991. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department operates the 1,826-acre (739 ha) park. [2]
In addition, Cedar Creek is home to McKinney Roughs Nature Park, a 1,100 acres (450 ha) nature park and archaeological site with a 17.6 mi (28.3 km) trail system. [21] [22] Adjacent to the park is the Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa, a 405 acres (164 ha) luxurious resort that shares the Colorado River with McKinney Roughs. [23]
When the area around Oak Hill was first settled in the 1830s and 1840s, there was very little population growth. [1] However, as a result of demand for limestone to construct the Texas State Capitol and demand for cedar wood in the latter half of the 19th century, [1] [4] the population of Oak Hill quickly grew, reaching 200 by 1904.