Carrollton, Texas

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History of Carrollton

The Mill Run by Oxen on a Treadwheel RoadyGoat

1850

Just northwest of Carrollton sits a place name that hides a wonderfully strange machine: Trinity Mills. In the 1850s two settlers, Perry and Witt, built a stone gristmill on a creek there, and it was powered in an unusual way, by oxen walking on a treadwheel. The animals plodded along a great inclined wheel, and their slow, steady walking turned the millstones that ground the settlers' grain. When the railroad arrived in 1878, Trinity Mills became a cattle-shipping point, but the little town faded and was eventually absorbed into Carrollton. The name lives on today as a busy commuter rail station, where thousands pass each day with no idea they are named for a mill once driven by walking oxen.

How a Dead Shopping Center Became Texas Koreatown RoadyGoat

The stretch of Old Denton Road you're on is home to the largest Korean community in Texas, and arguably in the entire southern United States, but it grew out of a failure. When the Mervyn's department store here closed in 2006, it left a hollowed-out shopping center and acres of empty parking. Korean investors saw an opportunity, bought the dead anchor, and in 2008 opened a sprawling H Mart Korean grocery in the old Mervyn's box. The supermarket became the magnet, and Korean restaurants, bakeries, and shops filled the vacancies around it, joined later by the rival 99 Ranch chain. The transformation was striking enough that the Texas Historical Commission erected a Korean Texans marker here in 2009, at 2625 Old Denton Road, recognizing the community's roots. Today more than a hundred Korean businesses cluster along this corridor, an immigrant neighborhood that quite literally rebuilt a piece of suburban Dallas that everyone else had given up on. (Source: Axios Dallas; Texas Historical Commission.)

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The Ox-Powered Mill That Came Before the Town RoadyGoat

Before Carrollton had a square, it had a mill, and the mill had an ox walking in circles. About two miles northwest of here, on Farmers Creek, A.W. Perry and his partner Wade H. Witt built a two-story rock gristmill in the late 1840s, powered not by water or steam but by oxen plodding a treadwheel. Farmers hauled corn and wheat from miles around to have it ground into meal and flour, and the cluster of activity took the name Trinity Mills. It got a post office in 1858, a name that would blink in and out four times before closing for good in 1915. When the Dallas and Wichita rails pushed through in 1878, Trinity Mills briefly bloomed as a cattle-shipping point. But the rail junction a little south would soon eclipse it, and the older settlement was eventually swallowed whole by the city of Carrollton. The mill is gone; the name survives on roads and a transit station. (Source: Handbook of Texas.)

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Texas International Pop Festival

1969

The Texas International Pop Festival took place near this site during Labor Day weekend, 1969. It was held two weeks after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair introduced much of mainstream America to the “hippie” culture by way of news reports of the chaos that occurred there in part due to rainy weather and lax security. The Texas festival brought as many as 150,000 hippies, bikers and music lovers to Lewisville, which at the time had a population of approximately 9,000 citizens. The Dallas International Motor Speedway, situated along Interstate Highway 35 south of town, was chosen as the location for the event. Twenty-five musical acts, representing the genres of soul, blues and rock and roll performed during the three days of the festival. Acts included Janis Joplin, Sly & the Family Stone, Grand Funk Railroad, Chicago Transit Authority, Herbie Mann and a relatively unknown United Kingdom band called Led Zeppelin. On the north side of Lewisville, a public campground situated on the shores of Lewisville Lake served the thousands of festival attendees. A small “free stage” was constructed at the campground and local bands were brought in to perform for the campers. The skinny-dipping in Lake Lewisville that resulted from the lack of shower facilities and the late-summer heat drew much attention. Many locals demanded that the festival be shut down because of the threat of violence and unsavory activity, but there were no acts of violence reported at the festival. However, area citizens were introduced to a culture that had previously been foreign to them and many who attended look back on the festival as a life-changing event. (2010)

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Korean Texans

1920

Korean immigrants first came to Texas in the early 20th century, with a handful living in the state by the 1920s. Most were laborers arriving from the Western U.S., including Hawai’i, or from Mexico. However, larger numbers of Koreans immigrated following the Korean War (1950-53). The U.S. Established military bases in Korea, and many U.S. servicemen met and married Korean women while stationed there, returning with their wives to Texas installations like Fort Hood (Bell Co.), Fort Bliss (El Paso Co.), and Fort Sam Houston (Bexar Co.). Additionally, a number of Korean orphans were adopted by Texas families following the war, particularly by Dallas residents. An increasing number of Korean nurses and other professionals immigrated to the state after 1965, when the national origins quota system was abolished. Most of these professionals settled in urban areas, establishing growing communities in cities like Dallas and Houston. Others opened businesses in these cities and others throughout Texas. Korean business districts developed in Irving (Dallas Co.), Killeen (Hood Co.), and Houston’s Spring Branch neighborhood (Harris Co.). As Korean immigrants arrived in Texas, they often formed communities centering on Christian and Catholic churches. A number of ethnic Korean churches were established in Dallas, Houston, Killeen, and other cities with large Korean populations. The churches and other organizations helped arriving Koreans acclimate to life in the U.S. Today, the social, cultural, political, and commercial impact of Korean texans continues to make a positive contribution to the state.

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House, Robert Ernest

1924

Robert Ernest House, physician and discoverer of "truth serum," the son of John Ford and Mary Jane (Harper) House, was born on August 3, 1875, at Farmers Branch, Texas. He graduated from Dallas High School in 1893 and attended Washington and Lee University and the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston before transferring to Tulane University in 1897. After receiving his M.D. in 1899, he served a one-year internship at Dallas City Hospital. In 1900 he moved to Ferris, Texas, where he met and married Mary Alma Orr and fathered two sons. Although he originally opened a practice in general medicine at Ferris, House later specialized in obstetrics and conducted research in mental disorders. He originated the Florence-Roser method of obstetrics and discovered what was popularly known as "truth serum." While experimenting with scopolamine hydrobromide in obstetric cases in 1924, he discovered that the drug induced a mental state in the patient that allowed the subject to receive statements but prevented the rationalization of his responses. In effect a patient could not hide his reactions and so would reveal, it was thought, what he considered true. The discovery established a nationwide reputation for the assistant county physician of Ellis County. For the next six years House worked in cooperation with Texas criminologists, using scopolamine hydrobromide to assist in determining the guilt or innocence of suspects. In recognition of this work he was elected an honorary member of the National Police Commission, the Internal Bureau for Identification, and the Texas Sheriffs' Association. He also used the drug to diagnose and treat insanity by detecting patients' delusions and to induce "twilight sleep" in obstetrics. More recently, scopolamine has been used as a preanesthetic medication in veterinary medicine and to control motion sickness. House was a fellow of the American Medical Association, the Southern Medical Association, the Texas Medical Association , and the International Academy of Historical Sciences. He was the staff physician for the Southern Pacific Railroad and author of a number of articles published in medical journals. His work was cut short by a stroke in 1929, which left him paralyzed. He was a Mason, Odd Fellow, Democrat, and Presbyterian. He died on July 15, 1930.

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Billl and Maude Dodson House

1946

This historic Farmers Branch residence was the home of the city's first mayor. William F. (Bill) Dodson (1895-1949), a native of Malakoff, married Maude Gilmore (1896-1998) in Fort Worth in July 1917. The following May, Bill became a private in the 36th Infantry Division, serving in France's Meuse-Argonne sector during the First World War The Dodsons'son Smith was born in November 1918. After the war, the Dodson family lived in Dallas and became active in real estate and oil. They moved to Farmers Branch in the 1930s and commissioned contractor Ross Faulkner to design a house to Maude's specifications. Completed by 1937, it was originally closer to Farmers Branch Creek but moved to its present site in 1942. In January 1946, Bill Dodson learned the city of Dallas, with city limits then 12 miles distant, planned to annex the Farmers Branch community. He and his neighbors circulated a petition for a local incorporation election. Citizens voted approval, and in April they elected Dodson the first mayor. H.O. Good, Lawson Lewis, Raymond Milloway, Thomas Reeder and Glenn Templin became the first aldermen. The new city council held three meetings in the Dodson House, with others conducted at Mason Lodge No. 395, where Dodson was a member. During his two-year term as mayor, Farmers Branch hired its first city employees, established a fire department and water system, and joined the League of Texas Municipalities. Maude stayed in the house until 1983, donating it to the city as the core of a heritage park. The Colonial Revival one-story frame house has telescoping wings, side gables, wood siding, six-over-one windows and a slender pedimented entry with square columns. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark – 2007

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Farmers Branch, TX

1842

Farmers Branch is on Interstate Highway 35 and State Highway 77 twelve miles north of downtown Dallas in northwestern Dallas County. The Burlington Northern and Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads serve the city. Farmers Branch was the location in 1845 of the first office of the Texan Land and Emigration Company, or the Peters colony . It was the most well-known Dallas County town during the 1840s because of its advertising throughout Europe and the United States. Thomas Keenan, Isaac B. Webb, and William Cochran all arrived in 1842 and received original land grants in the area that became the site of Farmers Branch. By 1843 settlers had established a community called Mustang Branch, named for the Mustang grapes that grew along the creek. Cochran later changed the name to Farmers Branch because of the area's rich farmland. On May 5, 1845, Isaac Webb established the first formal church in Dallas County, called Webb or Webb's Chapel. This Methodist church originally met in a log cabin, which went through several buildings but still existed as a congregation in the 1990s. A school was started in the church in 1846. Webb became the first postmaster of Farmers Branch when the post office was established there on January 5, 1848. The post office functioned until 1866, was closed, and was reinstated in 1875. The first blacksmith shop in Dallas County was built at Farmers Branch in 1845 by William Bowles, a Baptist preacher, and his slave Jordan, who worked as the blacksmith. In the same year the first Dallas County gristmill was built there; it used rawhide belts that could be used only when the weather was dry because they stretched when wet. The first local cotton gin was built in 1849 by James A. Smith. In 1878 the Dallas and Wichita Railway was completed from Dallas to Lewisville and passed through Farmers Branch. The road went into receivership and became part of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas in 1881. By 1890 Farmers Branch had a population of 100, a district school, three general stores, two blacksmith shops, and two physicians. By World War I the population was 300, and the area was a center for grain and cotton shipments. The community had a large number of new stores, including a millinery, a lumberyard, a grocery, and the Riddle Banking Company. Telephone connections and telegraph service were available. In 1916 the first brick school building was constructed. The population of Farmers Branch remained stable until after World War II . In April 1946 the community was incorporated and began to implement improved city services. In the next several years a new artesian well was drilled, a water tower constructed, and new water mains were laid throughout the city. A city hall and community house were built. Three industries were located in the town-a bag factory, a tile plant, and a woodworking and planing mill. The first fire station in the community was built and manned by twenty volunteer firemen. In 1956 Farmers Branch received a home-rule charter that provides for a city council-manager form of government. At that time an estimated 80 percent of the 800 residents commuted to work in Dallas. Proximity to Dallas contributed to rapid growth. The population of Farmers Branch reached 28,550 by the mid-1970s, when a variety of manufacturers were located there. Thirty-four firms produced many items, including steel products, tile, cement, asphalt, drugs, cosmetics, machine parts, and food products. Students in Farmers Branch attended school in either the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District or the Dallas Independent School District. Areas for recreation proliferated-fifteen parks, three golf courses, seventeen tennis courts, three youth centers, two indoor theaters, and a swimming pool. Brookhaven Medical Center was completed. The Farmers Branch Times Chronicle had been published since 1956, and the Metrocrest News had been established in 1960. In the 1990s Farmers Branch had a population of 24,250, sixty Fortun

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Parish Episcopal - 2025 Texas TAPPS Division I state football champion

2025

Parish Episcopal defeated Plano Prestonwood 14-7 for the 2025 Texas TAPPS Division I state football championship.

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Things to Do in Carrollton

historical 15.4 mi away

The Sixth Floor Museum

Where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from. The JFK assassination site at Dealey Plaza.

historical 15.5 mi away

Dealey Plaza

On November 22 1963 President John F Kennedy rode through Dealey Plaza in an open Lincoln convertible and was shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas…

quirky 16.6 mi away

Big Tex at the State Fair

A fifty-five-foot cowboy named Big Tex has welcomed visitors to the State Fair of Texas in Fair Park Dallas every fall since 1952. He booms howdy folks over a…

food 15.7 mi away

Pecan Lodge

Dallas' best BBQ. The beef rib alone is worth the drive.

spooky 15.8 mi away

Lady of White Rock Lake

Since the 1930s drivers along White Rock Lake report picking up a soaking-wet woman in a white dress. She asks for a ride home then vanishes leaving the seat…

quirky 16.3 mi away

Southfork Ranch

The Ewing family TV mansion from the Dallas soap opera sits on two hundred acres in Parker Texas and is open for tours every day. JRs bedroom is there. The…

historical 19.1 mi away

Southfork Ranch

The filming location of TV's Dallas. JR Ewing lived here.

quirky 19.3 mi away

Goatman's Bridge

A 1884 iron bridge outside Denton haunted by the ghost of a murdered goat farmer.

Sports in Carrollton

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 6A · Volleyball · 2016–2017

Hebron — UIL 6A Volleyball State Champions — 2 titles

Most recent: 2017 6A

Hebron High School in Carrollton has established itself as a formidable force in Class 6A volleyball. The Hawks proudly hold two UIL State Championship titles, earned in consecutive seasons. These significant achievements highlight a period of sustained excellence for the program.

The Hebron volleyball program represents the competitive spirit found across Texas high school sports. Their success in 2016 and 2017 brought state-level recognition to Carrollton, underscoring the dedication and hard work fostered within the team. The community continues to support its Hawks, celebrating their place among the state's top volleyball programs.

State titles

2 (2016–2017)

Most recent

2017

Class

The moment

Hebron High School claimed the 6A UIL State Championship in volleyball in 2017.

Sources: UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)

Everything Near Carrollton

1917 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

Carrollton, TX · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Carrollton, a city with roots stretching back to 1842 when William and Mary Larner became the first settlers. It's likely named after Carrollton, Illinois, the hometown of many early arrivals.…
The Mill Run by Oxen on a Treadwheel · 0.2 mi
Just northwest of Carrollton sits a place name that hides a wonderfully strange machine: Trinity Mills. In the 1850s two settlers, Perry and Witt, built a stone gristmill on a creek there, and it was powered in an…
Korean Texans · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker
Korean immigrants first came to Texas in the early 20th century, with a handful living in the state by the 1920s. Most were laborers arriving from the Western U.S., including Hawai’i, or from Mexico. However,…
How a Dead Shopping Center Became Texas Koreatown · 0.8 mi
The stretch of Old Denton Road you're on is home to the largest Korean community in Texas, and arguably in the entire southern United States, but it grew out of a failure. When the Mervyn's department store here closed…
Furneaux Cemetery · 1.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're passing Furneaux Cemetery, a final resting place for some of the earliest English immigrants to North Texas. William Furneaux arrived from England in 1857, and his wife's family came even earlier as part of the…
The Ox-Powered Mill That Came Before the Town · 1.6 mi
Before Carrollton had a square, it had a mill, and the mill had an ox walking in circles. About two miles northwest of here, on Farmers Creek, A.W. Perry and his partner Wade H. Witt built a two-story rock gristmill in…
Union Baptist Church · 1.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the very first Baptist church in Dallas County. Organized on May 10, 1846, in a humble pioneer cabin, it was led by Reverend David Myers. The original members were a handful of settlers,…
Perry Cemetery · 1.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the historic Perry Cemetery, the very first burial ground officially associated with the town of Carrollton. It opened its gates in 1896 with the burial of Sarah Huffman Perry. Just a year later, in…
Marker dedicated in 2005 · 1.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Perry Cemetery, established in 1897. It's recognized as a Historic Texas Cemetery, with this marker dedicated in 2005.
The Rise of Koreatown · 1.9 mi
As you travel through Carrollton, you're in the epicenter of one of the most vibrant ethnic enclaves in Texas. The area around Old Denton Road and the George Bush Turnpike is the heart of DFW's Koreatown. This…
A Koreatown Born From a Dead Department Store · 1.9 mi
One of Carrollton's most remarkable features grew out of an empty store. When a department store closed here in 2006, Korean investors bought the dead shopping center and, in 2008, opened a large Korean grocery store in…
From Gravel Pits to Green Parks · 1.9 mi
As you drive near the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Carrollton, you'll pass a string of lakes and green spaces. Much of that water isn't natural — it's the legacy of an industry. The geology here holds deep beds of…

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Carrollton, TX · 1.9 mi
Carrollton is home to the largest Korean community in Texas and the southern United States. Koreatown Carrollton, located at the intersection of Old Denton Road and President George Bush Turnpike, is a hub for a large…
Where the Tracks Crossed · 1.9 mi
To understand why Carrollton's historic downtown sits where it does, look for the tracks. For its first thirty-odd years the settlement was a loose collection of farms. Then in 1878 an agent for the unfinished Dallas…
The 1930s Swimming Hole That Became a Kid's Paradise · 2.0 mi
Generations of North Texas kids will tell you about Sandy Lake, and it sat right here at 1800 Sandy Lake Road. The story starts with a landmark swimming pool that dates back to the 1930s, a Depression-era oasis on the…
Alex W. and Sarah Perry Homestead · 2.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Alex W. and Sarah Perry Homestead, a place that's been in the same family for generations. They arrived in Texas in 1844, joining the Peters Colony and settling on this land. They…
Warner Cemetery · 2.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Carrollton, near where the Warner family settled in 1852. This family graveyard was started in 1873 with the death of Robert Warner, Jr. Ten graves are marked here, mostly Warner family members,…
Where Three Railroads Crossed · 2.5 mi
Most towns were lucky to get one railroad. Carrollton got three, and they all crossed right downtown. The first line came through in 1878, a second cut across it in 1888, and a third joined them in 1908, making the…
The House Rebuilt From Its Own Bones · 2.5 mi
The family that gave Carrollton its name left behind a house with a quiet twist. A.W. Perry, one of the town's founding settlers, built a farmhouse in 1857. Half a century later, in 1909, his son tore the old place…
Three Railroad Diamonds and the Town They Built · 2.6 mi
Downtown Carrollton exists because steel rails crossed here at sharp angles. In the 1880s the Missouri, Kansas and Texas, the Katy, ran through town; in 1888 the Cotton Belt completed its Fort Worth branch and crossed…
The Gravel an Ice Age River Left Behind · 2.6 mi
For decades Carrollton called itself a grain and gravel town, and the gravel half of that name is a deep-time story. Along the Elm Fork of the Trinity River lie thick beds of sand and gravel that the town mined heavily…
The Town Two Families Named for the One They Left Behind · 2.6 mi
You're rolling through a suburb of well over a hundred thousand people, but it started with a handful of wagons on the Blackland Prairie. William and Mary Larner were the first to settle here, arriving in 1842 near the…
The Depot That Burned, and the One That Replaced It · 2.6 mi
By the early 1920s the union depot at the Cotton Belt-Katy crossing was the busy heart of Carrollton, a station the Texas Railroad Commission had ordered built back in 1907 to handle the town's swelling rail traffic.…
The Man Who Brought Big-League Baseball to Texas Was Born Here · 2.6 mi
Carrollton doesn't have a long roster of household names, but one of the most consequential figures in modern North Texas got his start in this town. Tommy Joe Vandergriff, known to everyone as Tom, was born in…
The Pink House That Outlasted Every Flood · 2.6 mi
Near North Denton Drive and Belt Line Road stands the oldest building anyone in Carrollton can point to: the Boatwright House, a Queen Anne cottage believed to date to around 1900. Sometimes called the Pink House or the…
The Farmhouse the Founders' Family Built Twice · 2.6 mi
At 1509 North Perry Road, set in a ten-acre park, sits the white farmhouse of the family that named this town. A.W. and Sarah Perry arrived from Carrollton, Illinois, in 1844, claimed their land under the Peters Colony,…
Why a Prairie Farm Town Started Digging for a Living · 2.6 mi
The black dirt that made Carrollton good farmland sits on top of something the town learned to sell. This is the Blackland Prairie, a belt of deep, dark, expansive clay soil laid down over chalky Cretaceous bedrock, and…
A Name Carried From Illinois · 2.6 mi
Carrollton, Texas, owes its name to Carrollton, Illinois. The first settlers, the Larner family, arrived in 1842, and the Perrys followed a couple of years later, many of these early families having come from the same…
Family-Style Fried Chicken on the Old Town Square · 2.6 mi
If you want to eat where Carrollton actually gathers, point yourself to 1006 West Main Street, right on the historic downtown square, where Babe's Chicken Dinner House serves the kind of meal that doesn't need a menu.…
Carrollton Black Cemetery · 2.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Carrollton Black Cemetery, a precious record of the city's early African-American history. Many of the first settlers here were former slaves who helped build this community. By 1871, Scott…
First Baptist Church, Hebron · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the First Baptist Church of Hebron. This congregation got its start way back in 1883, meeting at Willow Springs School. Back then, it was called the Big Valley Baptist Church. A Sunday…
Two Weeks After Woodstock, 100,000 Came to a Speedway Field · 3.7 mi
For three days over Labor Day weekend, August 30 to September 1, 1969, an open field beside the brand-new Dallas International Motor Speedway near Interstate 35E became one of the great forgotten rock festivals. The…
Texas International Pop Festival · 3.7 mi · Historical Marker
The Texas International Pop Festival took place near this site during Labor Day weekend, 1969. It was held two weeks after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair introduced much of mainstream America to the…
The Road That Runs Under a Live Runway · 3.9 mi
Addison Airport's single runway sat squarely in the way of north-south traffic, so instead of detouring cars miles around it, the town dug a road straight underneath the active runway. The Addison Airport Toll Tunnel…
The Private Airfield Built for Jets · 3.9 mi
On the northeast edge of town sits one of the busiest little airports in America. Addison Airport broke ground on March 16, 1957, and opened that October, financed entirely with private money by a group of Dallas…
Seventeen Seconds: The 2019 King Air Crash · 3.9 mi
On the morning of June 30, 2019, a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air 350i lifted off from Addison Airport carrying two pilots and eight passengers bound for Florida. About 17 seconds after leaving the ground, the airplane…
The Smallest Town With the Most Restaurants · 3.9 mi
Addison loves to claim it has more restaurants per capita than any city in the country, and the math actually backs the boast up. Packed into roughly 4.4 square miles, with a population around 16,000, sit something like…
The Busiest Single-Runway Airport in America · 3.9 mi
Here's an engineering riddle Addison lives with every day: how do you run one of the busiest airports in the country on a single strip of pavement? Addison Airport has just one runway, 16/34, about 7,200 feet of…
An Airport That Fills an Eighth of the Town · 4.0 mi
In 1956 a 28-year-old Dallas businessman named Bill Overton announced he would build an airport, on private money, and it opened in October 1957. The Town of Addison bought it in 1976. Today Addison Airport is one of…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Hebron (Carrollton) · 4.1 mi
Hebron (Carrollton, TX) placed on the 6A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Landon Bonner (0.423 avg, 2 HR); Jordan Day (3 HR).
Rawhide Creek and Park · 4.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Farmers Branch, and right here is Rawhide Creek. Ever wonder where that name came from? It's all thanks to R. J. West, an early settler who arrived in Texas back in 1845. By 1846, West had set up…
Addison, TX · 4.2 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Addison, a town that owes its start to the railroad. Back in the 1840s, settlers like Preston and Pleasant Witt were already here, building mills. But it was in 1888 that W. W. Julian and others…
Nate's: Cajun Roots on Midway Road · 4.3 mi
Of all the restaurants crammed into Addison, Nate's Seafood and Steakhouse at 14951 Midway Road is one of the genuine old-timers. Nathan Peck opened it in 1988 after cutting his teeth in Houston kitchens, including…
House, Robert Ernest · 4.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
Robert Ernest House, physician and discoverer of "truth serum," the son of John Ford and Mary Jane (Harper) House, was born on August 3, 1875, at Farmers Branch, Texas. He graduated from Dallas High School in 1893 and…
The Cemetery in the Office Park · 4.4 mi
Turn off I-35E at Valley View Lane in Farmers Branch and look to your right, and about three-tenths of a mile in you'll see something startling: a pioneer graveyard sitting in the middle of a built-up modern city. This…
The Concrete Heart: Engineering the Crossroads · 4.4 mi
As you navigate the web of highways in Farmers Branch, you’re experiencing one of the most critical pieces of civil engineering in North Texas. The interchange connecting I-35E, the Stemmons Freeway, and I-635, the LBJ…
Farmers Branch, TX · 4.4 mi
Farmers Branch's history is deeply rooted in its agricultural past. The community was first settled in the early 1850s, and by 1843, it was known as Mustang Branch. The name was later changed to Farmers Branch by…
Farmers Branch, TX · 4.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
Farmers Branch is on Interstate Highway 35 and State Highway 77 twelve miles north of downtown Dallas in northwestern Dallas County. The Burlington Northern and Missouri, Kansas and Texas railroads serve the city.…
The Iron Horse Arrives · 4.4 mi
For its first 35 years, Farmers Branch was a small, isolated farming settlement. Getting your crops to a major market was a long, difficult journey by wagon. That all changed in 1877 with the arrival of the Dallas and…
The Town That Couldn't Keep Its First Name · 4.4 mi
Addison started in the 1840s when Peters Colony settlers built an ox-powered gristmill on White Rock Creek. In 1888, landowners donated railroad right of way for a coaling station called Noell Junction. But when the…
Frankford · 4.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Frankford, a town that grew around Indian Springs after the W.C. McKamy family settled here in 1852. At its peak, Frankford boasted a steam mill, cotton gin, and blacksmith shop. The town…
Dallas Christian College · 4.4 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Farmers Branch, right here in Dallas County. Back in 1949, forty men gathered in Dallas, inspired by Vernon M. Newland, with a mission: to create a Bible college. Just a year later, in 1950, their…
Frankford Church · 4.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Frankford, Texas, where this unassuming building has seen a lot of history. Back in 1885, a group of Methodists organized here, part of a traveling circuit. By the 1890s, Captain William McKamy…
The Wet Oasis of North Dallas · 4.5 mi
In the 1970s, if you wanted to order a cocktail with dinner in the suburbs north of Dallas, you were mostly out of luck. The region was a patchwork of 'dry' laws, a remnant of Prohibition. But the leaders of tiny…
Kaboom Town: A Town That Detonates Every July 3 · 4.5 mi
Most of the country lights its fireworks on the Fourth. Addison goes a day early, on purpose, and turns the whole town into a fireworks arena. Addison Kaboom Town started in 1985 and grew into one of the most acclaimed…
One of the Biggest Fireworks Shows in America · 4.5 mi
Every year on the third of July, this little town throws one of the biggest fireworks shows in the country. Kaboom Town has run since 1985, draws more than four hundred thousand spectators, and has been named one of the…
The Busiest Little Airport · 4.5 mi
As you pass through Addison, you're near one of the most important pieces of infrastructure in North Texas: Addison Airport. It opened in 1957, and it's not an airport for commercial airlines like DFW. This is a…
Engineering a Downtown from Scratch · 4.5 mi
By the 1990s, Addison was a classic American suburb: a collection of office parks, strip malls, and apartments all connected by wide, fast roads. It had places to work and places to live, but no central, walkable heart.…
Addison, TX · 4.5 mi
Addison was settled as early as 1846 when Preston Witt built a house near White Rock Creek. The Witt family opened a gristmill in 1849. In 1880, Sidney Smith Noell purchased a large tract of land south of what is now…
Blueprints in the Roundabout · 4.5 mi
In the late 1990s Addison tried an experiment that planners still cite: it grew a dense, walkable town center, called Addison Circle, out of eighty acres of vacant land, a deliberate break from typical suburban sprawl.…
How Noell Junction Became Addison · 4.5 mi
The town you're rolling into began as farmland along White Rock Creek, where Preston Witt put up a house in 1846 on land tied to Peters Colony, the empresario grant that seeded much of North Texas. By 1849 the Witt…
The Warbird Museum That Flew Away · 4.5 mi
For three decades, one of the best places in North Texas to stand under a real World War II fighter was a hangar at Addison Airport. The Cavanaugh Flight Museum, founded by businessman Jim Cavanaugh, filled its space…
First Methodist Society, Dallas County's · 4.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Farmers Branch, right where Texas Methodism got its start. Back in the winter of 1843, Isaac Blackman Webb and his family settled here in Peters Colony. Webb appealed for a missionary, and on…
Frankford Cemetery · 4.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be the community of Frankford, a stop for cattle drives and travelers on the old Preston Road. This cemetery here served as a final resting place for pioneers as early as 1862, with…
Parrish Family Cemetery · 4.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Coppell, where the Parrish family has put down roots. James and Eliza Parrish settled here in 1853, but James died later that same year. Eliza then set aside this land for a family cemetery. More…
More Restaurants Than Almost Anywhere · 4.6 mi
Addison packs close to two hundred restaurants into roughly four square miles, and the town proudly claims it has more restaurants per person than any city in the country. Its Restaurant Row along Belt Line Road is a…
Myers, David · 4.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site where David Myers, a Baptist preacher, brought his family to Texas on Christmas Eve, 1845. They left Kentucky and Illinois seeking free land and a new start. Myers quickly became a spiritual…
Texian Land and Emigration Company · 4.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the first agency for the Texian Land and Emigration Company, generally known as Peters' Colony. Back in 1841, William S. Peters secured a contract from the Republic of Texas to bring…
Addison State Bank · 4.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the old Addison State Bank building, completed in 1913. It was founded just the year before to serve this brand-new railroad community. After the bank closed its doors in 1926, this sturdy brick…
Keenan Cemetery · 4.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Keenan Cemetery, the final resting place for some of Dallas County's very first settlers. Look for the marker detailing the story of Thomas and Sarah Keenan. They arrived in the 1840s as part of the…
Keenan, John · 4.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Farmers Branch, and right here, you're passing the resting place of the very first child born to settlers in the area that would become Dallas County. John Keenan was born and passed away in…
First Baptist Church of Farmers Branch · 4.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the First Baptist Church of Farmers Branch. It all began back in 1842 when Thomas and Sarah Keenan settled here. They buried their infant son on this spot in 1843, creating the family…
Building a Downtown From an Empty Field · 4.7 mi
For most of its life Addison had a problem unusual for a town: it had no real center, just airport, offices, highways, and restaurants spread along the roads. In the early 1990s town officials decided to build one from…
The Airport That Built a City · 4.9 mi
In 1970, Coppell was a tiny dot on the map, a rural village of about seventeen hundred people surrounded by farmland. Then the single largest event in its history happened: Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport opened…
The Engineered Crossroads · 4.9 mi
Look at a map of Coppell and you're seeing a masterwork of twentieth-century transportation engineering — but look at the edges, not the middle. Coppell is the rare Dallas suburb with no freeway running through it at…
From Gibbs to Coppell: A Tale of a Train · 4.9 mi
The heart of Coppell, the area now called Old Town, is where the community actually started - it just started under a different name. Settled in the mid-1800s, the place got its post office in 1887 as Gibbs Station,…
Building a New Old Town · 4.9 mi
As Coppell boomed into a modern suburb, its original town center nearly vanished. By the 2000s, Old Coppell was a few aging buildings and a memory. Instead of letting it fade, the city decided on a bold and unusual…
Coppell, TX · 4.9 mi
Coppell's growth can be attributed to its strategic location near the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW Airport), which opened in 1974. This proximity to a major transportation hub spurred the city's…
Bethel Cemetery · 4.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Coppell, not far from the Elm Fork of the Trinity River. Back in the 1840s, James Parrish and his wife Eliza Jane settled here. Before James died in 1853, they set aside a piece of their farm for…
Pioneers of Mustang Branch · 4.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Farmers Branch, a major Dallas County commercial center today. But way back, this area was known as Mustang Branch. Likely named for wild horses or the native grapes that grew along the creek. It…
Billl and Maude Dodson House · 5.0 mi · Historical Marker
This historic Farmers Branch residence was the home of the city's first mayor. William F. (Bill) Dodson (1895-1949), a native of Malakoff, married Maude Gilmore (1896-1998) in Fort Worth in July 1917. The following May,…
Parish Episcopal - 2025 Texas TAPPS Division I state football champion · 5.0 mi · Sports News
Parish Episcopal defeated Plano Prestonwood 14-7 for the 2025 Texas TAPPS Division I state football championship.
Dinner Served by a Costumed Time Traveler · 5.0 mi
If a server dressed as a superhero, a princess, or a cowboy slides your prime rib onto the table, you've found Addison's most gleefully weird restaurant. The Magic Time Machine at 5003 Belt Line Road has been doing…
Gilbert House · 5.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Gilbert House, a rare survivor from early Texas. Dr. Samuel Gilbert arrived in Texas around 1850, and by 1857, he'd built this native limestone home. Beyond his medical practice, he ran a farm…
Marsh Cemetery · 5.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Farmers Branch, and just off the road is Marsh Cemetery. Back in 1844, Harrison Marsh and his wife Mary, with five children, traveled from Missouri to settle right here on Farmers Branch Creek.…
Webb Chapel Cemetery · 5.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Webb Chapel Cemetery, the resting place for many north Texas pioneers. But this site holds a unique distinction: it's the location of the very first Methodist society organized in Dallas County,…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Ranchview (Irving) · 5.4 mi
Ranchview (Irving, TX) placed on the 4A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Jacob Harms (0.511 avg, 1 HR).
Liberty Baptist Church · 5.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Plano, and right here is the site of Liberty Baptist Church, the oldest continuously serving Baptist congregation in Collin County. It all started back in 1850, with settlers gathering for worship…
Coppell, TX · 5.6 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Coppell, Texas, a town born from a railroad stop. Back in 1843, President Sam Houston himself camped right here on Grapevine Creek, trying to get local Indian tribes to help defend the Republic of…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: The Colony (The Colony) · 5.8 mi
The Colony (The Colony, TX) placed on the 5A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Trey Rangel (6 HR).
The Cy Young Ace Who Pitched for Coppell High · 5.9 mi
Before he was one of the most feared pitchers in baseball, Corey Kluber was a kid on the mound at Coppell High School. A two-time all-district performer, he helped lead Coppell to a district and area championship in…
White Rock Chapel · 5.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of White Rock Chapel, a testament to resilience and faith. Formed by former slaves in the Upper White Rock community in 1884, this Methodist church started in a log building near White Rock…
1.8 Million Square Feet: The Logistics Machine Behind the Showroom · 6.0 mi
What looks like a giant store is really an engineering and logistics problem solved at warehouse scale. The Nebraska Furniture Mart complex here totals around 1.8 million square feet, with roughly 560,000 square feet of…
How a Furniture Store Rewired a Suburb's Economy · 6.0 mi
The sprawling development off the Sam Rayburn Tollway is Grandscape, a roughly 430-acre mixed-use district anchored by a single, staggering tenant: Nebraska Furniture Mart, which opened here in 2015. NFM is owned by…
How the Purple Heart Trail Grew Across Texas · 6.0 mi
This highway is part of the Purple Heart Trail, a symbolic trail that runs through all fifty states to honor those killed or wounded in combat while serving in the armed forces. In Texas it started with one road. In two…
Henry Keller and Keller Springs Road · 6.1 mi
White Rock Cemetery Garden of Memories in Far North Dallas, Texas, is the resting place of Henry Keller (1817-1911), one of Dallas County's earliest and most influential African American pioneers. Keller was born into…
Texas International Pop Festival, 1969 · 6.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Lewisville, Texas, and right here, back on August 30th, <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1969</say-as>, the Dallas International Motor Speedway exploded with sound. This was the Texas…
Brooks, Benjy Frances · 6.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through North Texas, near Lewisville, where Dr. Benjy Frances Brooks was born. In 1958, she returned to Texas after extensive training, becoming the *first* woman to practice pediatric surgery in the…
Lewisville, TX (Denton County) · 6.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Lewisville, a city that exploded in population thanks to the nearby Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. But before the highways and the suburbs, this area hosted a legendary music festival.…
Prestonwood Christian Academy, Plano (Julius Randle) · 6.1 mi
Prestonwood Christian Academy in Plano, Texas is where Julius Randle won three state titles and averaged 32.5 points and 22.5 rebounds as a senior, overcoming a fractured foot. He played one season at Kentucky, was the…
Lewisville Lake · 6.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving past Lewisville Lake, a massive body of water with a history as complex as its name. It actually sits on the site of an earlier reservoir, Lake Dallas, built in 1928 primarily for the city of Dallas. But…
Thomas, Charles Graham · 6.1 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Denton County, not far from Lewisville, where a successful businessman named Charles Graham Thomas made his mark. After building a lumber business, Thomas turned to politics, serving three terms…
First Baptist Church of Renner · 6.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be Renner, a community that organized its Baptist congregation way back in 1890. For eight years, they met in the local schoolhouse, with a list of founding families longer than your…
The Day the World Changed in Dealey Plaza · 6.3 mi
On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy’s motorcade made a slow left turn into Dealey Plaza, right in front of the Texas School Book Depository. The crowds were cheering, the sun was out, and then shots rang…
The Quiet Summer That Invented the Modern World · 6.3 mi
The digital age has a birthplace, and it’s a laboratory in Dallas. In the summer of 1958, a newly hired engineer at Texas Instruments named Jack Kilby found himself with no vacation time while most of his colleagues…
The Hedgcoxe War: When 100 Armed Men Burned the Land Office · 6.3 mi
Right around here in the summer of 1852, the Peters Colony nearly came apart. Settlers were furious at the land company's unpopular English-born agent, Henry O. Hedgcoxe, who ran a land office on nearby Office Creek and…
How the Cowboys Saved Dallas's Reputation · 6.3 mi
After the Kennedy assassination in 1963, Dallas was known nationally as the 'City of Hate.' The city carried that burden for years. Then came a football team. In the late 1960s and 70s, the Dallas Cowboys, under coach…
Bonnie and Clyde: Dallas's Outlaw Legends · 6.3 mi
Long before they were movie stars, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were just two kids from the impoverished outskirts of Dallas. Clyde grew up in a West Dallas slum called 'the Devil’s Back Porch,' and Bonnie was a…
Big Tex at the State Fair of Texas · 6.3 mi
Fifty-five feet tall, a ninety-five-gallon hat, size ninety-six Lucchese boots — Big Tex has waved over the State Fair of Texas every two minutes for about as long as Dallas can remember. But he didn't start as a…
Deep Ellum Community Center · 6.3 mi
The new Deep Ellum Community Center in Dallas sits inside an 1892 building that once ran as the City Hotel — and it opened the very day after the neighborhood unveiled its historical marker, on the twenty-ninth of…
Deep Ellum's 150th anniversary · 6.3 mi
Deep Ellum turns a hundred and fifty this year, and it started the way a lot of Texas started — with a railroad. In 1873, two lines crossed just east of downtown Dallas, and people came to the junction looking for work.…
Kalita Humphreys Theater · 6.3 mi
Frank Lloyd Wright built exactly four buildings in Texas, and only one of them you can walk into. It's in Dallas, in Oak Lawn, right up against Turtle Creek — the Kalita Humphreys Theater. Wright first drew this design…
Kessler Theater · 6.3 mi
Oak Cliff, southwest Dallas — the Kessler has taken its hits. A tornado tore through in 1957, fire followed in 1962, and for a long stretch the old art deco house just sat there. Then developer Edwin Cabaniss bought it…
Texas big hair and the Dallas salon trade · 6.3 mi
You want to understand Texas? Start at the top — the hair. In Dallas, a cut and color with real big-hair styling can run you up to six hundred dollars, and stylist Kevin Ozowski's salon burns through ten cans of…
The Chicks · 6.3 mi
Two sisters from Dallas — Martie Maguire and Emily Strayer — started this as a bluegrass group. Then they pulled in a lead singer out of Lubbock named Natalie Maines, and in 1997 the whole thing broke wide open out of…
Neiman Marcus and the Invention of Dallas Style · 6.3 mi
In 1907, when Dallas was still a dusty cotton town, Herbert Marcus, his sister Carrie, and her husband Al Neiman, made a choice. They had just sold a successful business idea and could either invest in the new…
Freedman's Town: The Lost Neighborhood Beneath the Expressway · 6.3 mi
If you drive up the Central Expressway just north of downtown, you're passing through the heart of one of the most significant Freedman's Towns in the country. After the Civil War, thousands of newly freed African…
The Flood That Built the Levees · 6.3 mi
Look at the Trinity down there — calm, contained, mostly forgotten by drivers on the overpasses. In May 1908 it wasn't contained at all. Three days of heavy rain up in the watershed sent the river over its banks, and on…
Dallas, TX · 6.3 mi
Dallas, Texas, has a rich history that dates back to its founding in 1841 by John Neely Bryan. The city's name is believed to have originated from Vice President George M. Dallas, although this is disputed. Dallas'…
Blind Lemon Jefferson on Elm and Central · 6.3 mi
Before the records, before the fame, Blind Lemon Jefferson played Deep Ellum's street corners for whatever fell into the tin cup tied to his guitar. The Handbook of Texas says he played almost every day at the corner of…
La Réunion: The French Utopia on the Trinity · 6.3 mi
Imagine, in 1855, a group of 200 French, Swiss, and Belgian socialists arriving on the banks of the Trinity River, just across from the rough little village of Dallas. They were followers of philosopher Victor…
The Hedgcoxe War · 6.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Denton County, right where a land dispute turned into a full-blown conflict known as the Hedgcoxe War. It all started back in 1841 with the Texas Emigration & Land Company, which was allowed to…
Grapevine Springs Park · 6.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Grapevine Springs Park, a spot that's been drawing people for over two thousand years. Imagine President Sam Houston himself camping right here back in eighteen forty-three, during treaty talks with…
Lane Chapel C.M.E. Church · 6.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Lane Chapel C.M.E. Church, a testament to resilience in Lewisville. <break time="400ms"/> Founded in 1882 by Anthony Hembry and six former slaves, this congregation was more than just a…
The City by the Lake and Its 65-Acre Front Porch · 6.5 mi
The Colony likes to call itself the City by the Lake, and Stewart Creek Park at 3700 Sparks Road is where that nickname earns its keep. The roughly 65-acre park spreads along the shoreline of Lewisville Lake with a swim…
Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church · 6.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Dallas County, heading past the site of Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, also known as 'The Rock.' Established way back in 1864, this is the oldest African American church in the entire…
The Doctor's House and the Bonnie-and-Clyde Legend That Can't Be True · 6.6 mi
At 208 East Main Street stands one of Old Town Lewisville's oldest homes, a Victorian house built in 1885 by Dr. J. W. Kennedy, who lived in one wing and ran his medical practice out of the other. The cedar planks in…
A 1904 Farmhouse, Moved to Save It · 6.6 mi
At Coppell Heritage Park, on South Coppell Road near Bethel, sits the 1904 Kirkland House, the home of John M. and Edna Jeanette Kirkland and one of the clearest surviving links to the town's farming days. Like a lot of…
The Dam That Built a City · 6.7 mi
The massive lake that defines Lewisville isn't a natural feature; it's the result of a monumental engineering project from the 1950s. This is the Garza-Little Elm Dam, a 6-mile-long earthen structure designed by the…
The Lakebed Hearths That Rewrote, Then Corrected, the Record · 6.7 mi
When crews dug a borrow pit for the Lewisville dam around 1950 and 1951, they exposed something extraordinary on the future lakebed: clusters of baked clay that looked like ancient campfires, ringed by the bones of Ice…
From Holford Prairie to a Name Off the Rail Line · 6.7 mi
The ground you're crossing was open grassland the first settlers called Holford Prairie, sometimes spelled Hallford, after John and James Holford, who arrived in 1844. That same year John King and his son Augustus came…
The Site That Almost Rewrote American Prehistory · 6.7 mi
Somewhere beneath the waters of Lewisville Lake lies an archaeological site that once threatened to rewrite human history in the Americas. During the dam's construction in the 1950s, archaeologists found ancient spear…
Lewisville, TX · 6.7 mi
Lewisville's history began in the early 1840s as Holford's Prairie. The town's first railroad arrived in 1881, sparking initial growth. Lewisville incorporated in 1925. The completion of Lewisville Lake in the 1950s led…
Two Dams, a Drowned Town, and the Lake That Ate Lake Dallas · 6.7 mi
The huge sheet of water north of town hides a layered history. The first dam here, the Garza Dam on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River, was finished in 1927 by the W. E. Callahan Construction Company and began holding…
It Waited, and the Train Came · 6.7 mi
The historic heart of Lewisville, its Old Town district, isn't where the town started. Settlers named Hallford came to this prairie in 1844 and it was Hallford's — or Holford's — Prairie for years. In 1853 Basdeal W.…
Steaks in the Old Feed Mill on Main · 6.7 mi
If you want to eat inside actual Lewisville history rather than a replica of it, the Prairie House Restaurant at 119 East Main Street is the spot. The building started life in 1886 as the Lewisville Feed Mill and livery…
One of North Texas's Oldest Town Festivals · 6.7 mi
Every year on the last weekend of September, Old Town Lewisville fills up for Western Days, one of the oldest municipally run festivals in North Texas. Its roots reach back to the 1950s, though the City of Lewisville…
From 800 People to a City of Tens of Thousands · 6.7 mi
It's easy to forget, rolling past the malls and apartment complexes, how small Lewisville stayed for most of its life. The town didn't even incorporate until 1925, when it counted about 815 residents, barely more than…
Cox House · 6.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Cox House in Dallas. Farmers Howard and Mary Jane Cox bought nearly 190 acres right here in 1878. They built a house on this spot before 1884, and family lore says parts of that original home are…
Jesuit College Prep, Dallas (Jordan Spieth) · 6.8 mi
Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas is where Jordan Spieth won multiple state golf titles and, like Tiger Woods, two U.S. Junior Amateur championships. He played at the University of Texas and went on to win…
The First Cotton Gin in Denton County Spun Here · 6.8 mi
Before Lewisville was a Dallas suburb, it was a cotton town, and it got there early. In 1862 the partners Rawlins, Kealy, and Herod put up a gristmill to grind the prairie's grain. Five years later, in 1867, T. M.…
The Arts Anchor at Main and Charles · 6.8 mi
On the corner of Main and Charles in Old Town stands the Medical City Lewisville Grand Theater, usually just called the MCL Grand, at 100 North Charles Street. It's the city's purpose-built performing-arts center, the…
Smith Cemetery · 6.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be Holford's Prairie, settled by the Halford brothers in the mid-1800s. Look around Lewisville, a town platted by Basdeal Lewis in 1853. Thomas and Elizabeth Smith bought land here in…
Named for a Land Company That Promised Pioneers 640 Free Acres · 6.9 mi
The suburb you're driving through carries one of the more literal names in North Texas: it is The Colony because it sits on land that was the Peters Colony. Back in 1841 the Republic of Texas handed an empresario…
Camey Spur: The Cotton-Gin Town the Railroad Made and Unmade · 6.9 mi
Before subdivisions, the most successful community on this ground was Camey, sometimes called Camey Spur, clustered near where State Highway 121 runs today. It took its name from Capt. William McKamy, whose family…
Two First-Round NBA Picks From the Same High School Team · 6.9 mi
The Colony High School pulled off something most basketball programs never sniff: it put two of its own into the first round of the same NBA draft. Deron Williams and Bracey Wright were high school teammates here before…
The 13-Year-Old Who Out-Geographied the Whole Country · 6.9 mi
In May 2009, a 13-year-old from Griffin Middle School in The Colony stood on a stage in Washington, D.C., and beat every other state champion in the country. Eric Yang won the National Geographic Bee, moderated that…
A Slice of Scotland on the Shore of Lewisville Lake · 6.9 mi
Along the lakeshore on the west side of town sits one of the stranger golf courses in Texas: a deliberate impersonation of Scotland. The Tribute, opened in 2000 and designed by Tripp Davis, is a links-style course whose…
A Dream City Built From Scratch in 1974 · 6.9 mi
Almost everything around you is younger than many of the people living in it. In 1973 the Dallas homebuilders Fox and Jacobs bought roughly 3,000 acres near State Highway 121 and Farm Road 423 and set out to build an…
The Colony, TX · 6.9 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through The Colony, a modern suburb north of Dallas. But right here, in 1852, this was the site of the Hedgcoxe War. Armed settlers raided and burned the offices of the Texas Emigration and Land Company.…
An Urban Wilderness Below the Dam · 7.0 mi
Just downstream of the Lewisville dam, where the Elm Fork of the Trinity River runs out below the spillway, sits one of the largest patches of protected wild land in this corner of the Metroplex: the Lewisville Lake…
Cowboy-Style Pit Barbecue Off Highway 121 · 7.0 mi
If you want barbecue with an open-fire show, the Hard Eight BBQ at 5300 State Highway 121 delivers it the old cowboy way. Out front, meat cooks over open pits the way ranch cooks have done it for generations, with…
Hockaday School · 7.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Hockaday School, a Dallas institution that started with a bold vision for girls' education. In 1913, Ela Hockaday, a seasoned educator with degrees from Columbia and Chicago, took…
Bridges Cemetery · 7.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Bridges Cemetery, the oldest in Denton County, established by the W. A. Bridges family. This settlement, a hub for Peters Colony, began way back in 1843. The cemetery itself started in 1855 on…
Milliken House · 7.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Milliken House in Lewisville. Built in 1878 by William Dickerson Milliken, this home was constructed using native oak for its framing. Can you imagine? The siding, however, had to be hauled all…
Where Sam Houston Camped to Make Peace · 7.1 mi
The shaded ground at Grapevine Springs Park has drawn people for a very long time, water historians say the springs have attracted visitors for more than 2,000 years. The most famous gathering came in 1843, when…
The City That Owns a Piece of an Airport · 7.1 mi
Most people never realize that part of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport sits inside Coppell's city limits, roughly 266 acres of the airport's footprint falls within the town. When DFW opened in 1974, that border…
How a New York Banker's Name Replaced the Lieutenant Governor's · 7.1 mi
This corner of northwest Dallas County started as farmland with a name borrowed from a Texas heavyweight. By the 1870s the settlement here was known as Gibbs, after Barnett Gibbs, a state senator and one of Texas's…
The Post Oak That Watched a Treaty Council · 7.1 mi
Near the stream at Grapevine Springs Park stands a gnarled post oak that locals call the Houston Campsite Oak. The story tied to it goes back to 1843, when Sam Houston and his party camped at these springs waiting out…
The Crossroads Where the Town Began · 7.1 mi
The blocks around Bethel and South Coppell Roads are where this whole city started. In the late 1870s the first stores, a blacksmith, and eventually a cotton gin clustered at this crossroads beside the Cotton Belt…
From a Dirt Lot to the Best Market Around · 7.1 mi
The Coppell Farmers Market grew out of a simple problem: people kept asking to buy the produce coming out of the city's community gardens. City volunteer Amanda Vanhoozier launched the market in 2003 to meet that…
A Mile of Spring-Fed Creek Inside the Suburbs · 7.1 mi
Tucked inside Wagon Wheel Park on Coppell's west side is a 66-acre pocket of wild Texas that the bulldozers skipped. The Coppell Nature Park follows the Cottonwood Branch, a twisting tributary of the Elm Fork of the…
Coppell, TX · 7.1 mi
Coppell's history is a tale of transformation. Once a small farming village, the opening of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in 1974 sparked a radical change. The 1980s and 1990s saw Coppell evolve into a large,…
A Pairs Champion Off the Texas Ice · 7.1 mi
Figure skating isn't the first sport you'd expect from a North Texas suburb, which makes Ashley Cain-Gribble's story stand out. Raised in Coppell, she rose through the pairs ranks with partner Timothy LeDuc to become…
The Grandscape Revolution · 7.3 mi
Look around at the massive buildings of Grandscape, and you're seeing a city's identity being completely remade. For most of its life, The Colony was known as a quiet 'City by the Lake.' But the arrival of Nebraska…
The Lake That Built a City · 7.3 mi
The reason The Colony exists is a massive feat of 20th-century engineering: the creation of Lewisville Lake. What you see today isn't an entirely natural lake. It started as a smaller reservoir, Lake Dallas, built in…
The Colony, TX · 7.3 mi
The Colony's history is deeply rooted in Texas' early days. It was named after the Peters Colony, which had its headquarters in the area that is now The Colony. The city itself didn't come into existence until 1973 when…
Collinsworth Cemetery · 7.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Collinsworth Cemetery, established in 1895. It was designated a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2002.
How a Farm Town Became a Corporate Capital · 7.5 mi
The glass towers off to the west sit on what was, within living memory, cotton and cattle ground. The turning point came from Ross Perot, the Texarkana-born businessman who founded Electronic Data Systems. In 1979 Perot…
Lewisville Prehistoric Site · 7.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Lewisville's prehistoric past. Back in 1950, construction on the Lewisville Dam unearthed ancient artifacts. Archeologists rushed in for a closer look, digging for years before the waters…
Merrell Cemetery · 7.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Merrell Cemetery, the final resting place for many of Dallas's earliest pioneers. Elder Eli Merrell, a minister, settled here in 1844, claiming 640 acres. His grave was the first marked one in…
Baccus Cemetery · 7.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Frisco, Texas, and right here is the Baccus Cemetery. This land was first used as a family burial ground back in 1847 by Henry Cook, a War of 1812 veteran who settled here as part of the Peters…
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church · 7.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. Facing unrest in Greece, hundreds of thousands of Greeks came to America. In Dallas, the need for an Orthodox church was recognized, and in 1915, the…
J.J. Pearce High School (Ray Childress) · 7.8 mi
J.J. Pearce High School in Richardson, Texas (1600 North Coit Road) is where Ray Childress was an all-state defensive lineman. He starred at Texas A&M, was the third overall pick of the 1985 NFL Draft, and became a…
A Preacher's Daughter From J.J. Pearce High · 7.8 mi
The pop superstar Jessica Simpson started life right here, born in Richardson on July 10, 1980, the daughter of a Baptist minister and a homemaker. As a kid she sang in her church choir, and the family story goes that…
The Missouri Colony · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Grapevine, where in 1844, families from Platte County, Missouri, decided to put down roots. They called themselves the 'Missouri Colony' and were among the very first permanent settlers in all of…
The Pilot Who Was Pulled From the Pacific · 7.9 mi
The President George Bush Highway, through Dallas, Collin and Denton counties, is named for the forty first president. Long before politics, George Bush was a Navy pilot. He volunteered at eighteen, just after…
Peters Colony · 8.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through land that was once part of the ambitious Peters Colony, a massive land grant from the Republic of Texas back in 1841. Imagine this: W. S. Peters and his partners promised to bring 600 families…
Thirty Two Minutes on Walnut Hill Lane · 8.1 mi
On Sunday night, October twentieth, two thousand nineteen, at eight fifty eight, a tornado formed in northwest Dallas near State Highway three forty eight and Luna Road. For thirty two minutes it ran east northeast,…
Mount Calvary Cemetery · 8.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and just off to your right is Mount Calvary Cemetery. This burial ground has been serving settlers since the 1840s. The oldest marked grave here belongs to Amanda L. Houx, who died way…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Richardson (Richardson) · 8.4 mi
Richardson (Richardson, TX) placed on the 6A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Marcus Bond (3 HR).
Letot Cemetery · 8.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Letot Cemetery in Dallas. This quiet resting place holds the story of Clement LeTot, a Frenchman who fought in the Crimean War before settling here in 1874. He founded the town of Letot in 1881,…
McCombs Cemetery · 8.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past McCombs Cemetery, a quiet resting place that holds stories from the earliest days of this area, even before Denton was the county seat. Back in the 1850s, Nehemiah Wade Boyd died suddenly of…
Anderson Bonner · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past land once owned by Anderson Bonner, a remarkable figure who rose from slavery to become a major Dallas landowner and entrepreneur. Born enslaved in Alabama around 1839, he was brought to Texas as a…
California Crossing · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right up ahead, about 500 feet north of here, is a place called California Crossing. Imagine this: it's 1849, gold fever is raging, and thousands of hopeful '49ers are trekking west.…
The Crash That Taught Aviation to Fear the Microburst · 8.6 mi
At about six minutes past six in the evening on August 2, 1985, Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a wide-body Lockheed L-1011 TriStar inbound from Fort Lauderdale, dropped out of a thunderstorm short of the runway at…
The University Three Engineers Built From a Cotton Field · 8.7 mi
The sprawling campus at 800 West Campbell Road began as a recruiting problem. By the late 1950s, Texas Instruments was hiring so many scientists and engineers that it had to import most of them from other states,…
Bonnie Parker's Grave · 8.7 mi
Bonnie Parker is buried at Crown Hill Memorial Park, on Webb Chapel Road near Bachman Lake, and not next to Clyde Barrow. The two of them wanted to be buried side by side, and her family would not allow it. After the…
Ursuline Academy · 8.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, where a piece of the city's educational history is unfolding right now. Back in 1874, Bishop Claude Marie Dubuis brought six Ursuline nuns here with a mission: to start a Catholic school.…
Old Hall Cemetery · 8.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be Holford Prairie, named for the Holford families who arrived here in 1844, part of the Peters Colony. They settled west of Big Spring Creek, and by 1855, this community built a…
St. Mark's School of Texas · 8.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Dallas, and right here is the site of St. Mark's School of Texas. Its story starts way back in 1906 with the Terrill School, a place known for strict discipline and academic rigor, attracting the…
McCurley Cemetery · 9.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the McCurley Cemetery, a resting place with a story of relocation. The McCurley family arrived in Denton County from Illinois back in 1852. George Collins McCurley designated this land for burials, a…
The Chip That Changed the World · 9.1 mi
Right at the southern edge of Richardson, where US 75 meets I-635, the sprawling Texas Instruments campus spills across the city line into Dallas—and it was there, on TI's Dallas ground, that a piece of the modern world…
DFW Chinatown · 9.1 mi
As you travel through Richardson, you're in the heart of North Texas's Asian cultural scene. The landmark is DFW Chinatown, on Greenville Avenue just north of Main. The building itself is older than most people assume —…
The Church That Gave the Town Its Name · 9.1 mi
At 1501 Flower Mound Road stands a plain white wooden church that quietly started everything. In 1854 a farmer-preacher from Tennessee named Matthew B. Donald set aside ten acres here on Long Prairie for a church, a…
Richardson, TX · 9.1 mi
In the 1840s, emigrants from Kentucky and Tennessee settled near what is now Richardson. A small settlement called Breckenridge emerged before the Civil War. In 1873, the Houston and Texas Central Railway built a depot…
The End of a Dry Era · 9.1 mi
For most of its history Richardson was a dry city. You could not buy alcohol here — no beer in the grocery store, no bottle of wine at the corner market — and for decades residents simply drove across the city line to…
Flower Mound Presbyterian Church · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the very first Presbyterian church in Denton County. Organized way back in 1854 by Reverend Matthew B. Donald, worship here began in people's homes. They built their first log church…
Flower Mound Cemetery · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Flower Mound Cemetery, a place that started with a farmer's generous gift. Matthew Doyle arrived in 1854 and immediately set aside ten acres for a church, campground, and this cemetery. He even…
Morgan Hood Survey Pioneer Cemetery · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Grapevine, near the old Morgan Hood Survey. Look for a small cemetery, abandoned for over a century. Its single visible grave is marked with stones, a common pioneer method from the 1850s to…

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