Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
This cemetery is somewhat hard to locate, but is located just behind a large Jewish Cemetery (Shearith Israel) on Dolphin Road just south of Military Parkway. The Bryan Pergola, standing on the Grassy Knoll in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, is named after John Neely Bryan (1810-1877), the recognized founder of the City of Dallas.
Sowers is a ghost town located approximately 11 miles northwest of Dallas, Texas in Dallas County. Today, the once rural community is located entirely within the boundaries of Irving , Texas. Of the original townsite, only the cemetery remains.
The Hemicycle at Houston National Cemetery in Houston, Harris County. Congregation Beth Israel Cemetery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston; Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery, Houston; Founders Memorial Cemetery, Houston; Glenwood Cemetery, Houston; Houston National Cemetery, Houston; NRHP-listed; Olivewood Cemetery, Houston
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.
Established in 1849, Pioneer Park Cemetery is the final resting place for four Dallas mayors, early city business leaders, and fighters from the Texas Revolution. John McClannahan Crockett, Dallas mayor and Lieutenant Governor of Texas during the American Civil War, is among those buried here. [2] The last person was interred in the cemetery in ...
Warren Angus Ferris (December 26, 1810 – February 8, 1873) was a trapper, cartographer and diarist in the Rocky Mountains from 1830 to 1835. [1]: 149–156 From 1829–1835, he traveled to Cache Valley and the Snake River area with the American Fur Company.
Harris-Savage Home (RTHL #17586, [20] 2013), 5703 Swiss Ave.—Constructed in 1917 for P.A. Ritter, later occupants of the home included William A. Turner, a Texas oil field pioneer, and W.R. Harris, who was a prosecutor during the impeachment of Texas Governor James Ferguson by the Texas Legislature, and Wallace Savage, a former mayor of Dallas.
Dallas–Fort Worth National Cemetery; F. Freedman's Cemetery (Texas) G. Greenwood Cemetery (Dallas) O. Oakland Cemetery (Dallas, Texas) P. Pioneer Park Cemetery; R.