Irving High School at 900 North O'Connor Road, the city's oldest high school, dating to 1929, has quietly turned out a couple of genuine standouts. Trevor Story was born in Irving in 1992 and starred here as a shortstop before the Colorado Rockies drafted him; he broke into the majors in spectacular fashion, becoming one of the most explosive power-hitting infielders in baseball and later signing with the Boston Red Sox. Decades earlier, these same halls educated a future rock star. Frank Beard, who grew up in the area and attended Irving High, went on to become the drummer for ZZ Top, the bearded Texas trio whose boogie-blues sound became one of the most recognizable in rock. The franchise punchline is that Beard is famously the one member of the band without the long beard. Between a big-league shortstop and the backbeat of a Texas rock institution, this ordinary-looking campus on O'Connor Road has a deeper bench than its scoreboard lets on. (Source: Wikipedia; irvingtexas.com.)

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History of Irving

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The name Irving has a charming origin, inspired by literature. It was founded in 1903 by J.O. 'Otto' Schulze and Otis Brown, who named the city after the beloved literary author Washington Irving. The choice of name was influenced by Netta Barcus Brown, who was a fan of Washington Irving's works. This connection to literature gives Irving a unique and cultured identity among cities.

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Irving's history is marked by slow but steady growth, with pivotal moments that shaped the city. Founded in 1903 by J.O. 'Otto' Schulze and Otis Brown, the city was named after the literary author Washington Irving, a favorite of Netta Barcus Brown. Irving began as Gorbit in 1889 and changed its name to Kit in 1894 before becoming Irving. The population was a mere 357 in 1925, but a significant increase began in the 1930s. By the early 1960s, the city's population had grown to approximately 45,000, with manufacturing plants, transportation, retail, and financial businesses operating in the area. The University of Dallas opened in 1956, and Texas Stadium, home to the Dallas Cowboys, was completed in 1971. The Chateau Theater, part of a chain of theaters across North Texas and Oklahoma, opened in 1964. Irving's population reached 155,037 in 1990 and continued to grow, with the United States Census Bureau estimating 236,607 residents in 2016.

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Irving was founded in 1903 by J.O. 'Otto' Schulze and Otis Brown, who named the city after the literary author Washington Irving, a favorite of Netta Barcus Brown. The city began as an area called Gorbit in 1889 and changed its name to Kit in 1894 before becoming Irving. Irving was incorporated on April 14, 1914, with Otis Brown serving as the first mayor. The founding of Irving was a significant event that laid the foundation for the city's growth and development over the years.

Texas Stadium Site - America's Team

1971

Texas Stadium in Irving served as home to the Dallas Cowboys from 1971 to 2008. Its distinctive partial roof and the Cowboys' five Super Bowl wins made it an icon of American sports culture.

Site of the Dr. D. W. Gilbert Homestead

1874

Site of the Dr. D. W. Gilbert Homestead Mississippi native Daniel Webster "D.W." Gilbert (1854-1930) was one of three brothers who became Texas doctors. At age 20, he joined his brother, Franklin Monroe Gilbert, in Grapevine and began to study medicine under him. In 1879, he enrolled at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, graduating in 1881 with a medical degree. Returning to Texas, D.W. wed Marietta Boardman in 1882. In 1886, then a widower with one son, D.W. married Fannie Trigg Roberts, a widow who also had one son. They later lived near this site in a large house he had built on a hill. The couple had nine other children; four of the boys became doctors. From a small office he built on a corner of this land, Dr. Gilbert served his patients in the surrounding communities. He later purchased additional land and raised livestock, farmed, planted a peach orchard and operated the Gilbert Dairy, utilizing progressive farming methods. Later, he moved his office to Sowers, where he also operated a drugstore, mixing medicines and training others to become pharmacists. When the town of Irving was laid out in 1903, Dr. Gilbert moved his office to a space near the local bank, which he helped organize. He later moved his office to the second story of the bank building. Dr. Gilbert continued to practice medicine in Irving until his death in 1930. Fannie Gilbert lived on the farmstead until she passed away in 1942. The home remained near this site until the 1950s, when it was demolished. Dr. Gilbert was one of the most influential early citizens in and around Irving. He is remembered for his compassion, generosity and tireless commitment to helping others.																(2004)

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Sowers Community

1856

By 1856, Edmund D. and Freelove Sowers, who came to Texas from Illinois, owned land in this vicinity. Along with their neighbors, including Jacob and Henry Caster, and William and Lucinda Haley, they farmed, hunted game and cut timber. Ed Sowers also served as a blacksmith. Sowers opened a general store on his property in the late 1870s, and a small business district developed around it. As additional families came to the area, Sowers donated land that was added to an adjacent burial plot to form the community cemetery. In 1881, he applied for a mail route and opened a post office in his general store. During that same time, Sowers built a schoolhouse for local children. In the 1880s, several physicians came to the Sowers community, including William Wilson, Alfred Gregory and Daniel Webster Gilbert, who had a local drugstore. Dr. John Haley, a Sowers native who would later serve as mayor of Irving, began his medical practice here in 1897. With medical services and the post office, the Sowers community served as a center for area farming communities. Ed and Freelove Sowers held annual Fourth of July picnics and other festivals, inviting families from the region to camp, dance, compete in baseball games and enjoy barbecue dinners. Despite the growth of nearby Irving, the Sowers community, with strong foundations in the dairy and poultry businesses, survived until the 1950s. The Sowers School consolidated with Irving schools in 1955, and Irving annexed the community itself in 1954 and 1956. Today, the businesses and homes are gone. Only the cemetery remains as a link to the Sowers community. (2003)

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Cistercian Fathers

1958

Our Lady of Dallas Abbey, the home of the Cistercians in Texas, is located in Irving off Highway 114, near Texas Stadium, Las Colinas, and the University of Dallas. It comprises thirty-six acres dotted with elevations and mesquite trees, and its brick buildings exhibit both modern and traditional architectural features. Its chapel, built in the early 1990s, is a massive limestone building with no veneers and few modern features; according to one critic, "the Cistercian church evokes 900 years of history, scholarship and prayer." The members of the community dedicate themselves exclusively to the love of God and the service of their fellow men. To be undivided in their loyalties they renounce marriage and individual ownership and subordinate their wills to the higher ideals of their institution. They belong to the world-wide Cistercian order, hence are called Cistercians. The name derives from Citeaux (in Latin, Cistercium ), their parent abbey in Burgundy, founded as a reform branch of the Benedictine order in 1098. The Cistercians, who adopted the white habit and black scapular, quickly spread over all of Europe and influenced medieval life in numerous ways. Their constitutional document, the Charter of Charity , is said to have inspired parliamentary government. The Cistercians in Irving came from the abbey of Zirc in western Hungary, founded in 1182. Upon higher request, Zirc, cloistered at first, accepted full educational and teaching responsibilities in the latter part of the eighteenth century. Afterward the monk-priests also acquired academic degrees in the liberal arts and taught in one of the five modern college preparatory schools of the abbey. They trained generations of prominent public figures and intellectual leaders. Hungarian monks living in the United States after the Communist takeover were invited by Bishop Thomas Gorman to the Diocese of Dallas-Fort Worth. They moved into their own monastery, built on the campus of the University of Dallas, in 1958. Five years later their priory was raised to the status of an abbey. Since then, buildings have multiplied on their grounds, and American vocations have increased their ranks. The Irving Cistercians follow a rigorous daily schedule. Their communal prayer life includes the recitation of the monastic office, made up largely of psalms, and on Sundays they also chant traditional Gregorian melodies. As teachers, they staff their own Cistercian Preparatory School for boys grades five through twelve, built on their premises in 1963, or serve as teachers or administrators at the University of Dallas. They carry out their priestly ministry in the abbey, as well as in parishes, convents, and military bases of the metropolitan area. Individually, the monks are well-versed in languages and have earned advanced degrees in the classics, modern languages, science, history, music, philosophy, and theology. Some have published scholarly books and articles, given talks on a variety of subjects, or cultivated the fine arts on a highly professional level. Thus one can see attractive sculptures, paintings, ceramics, and prints all over the monastery. Collectively, the Cistercians contribute their spirituality, achievements, and cosmopolitan enthusiasm to the culture of North Texas.

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Las Colinas, TX

1973

Las Colinas is a commercial and residential community on State Highway 183, Interstate highways 35E and 635, and Belt Line Road within the city of Irving and ten miles northwest of Dallas in western Dallas County. It is southeast of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport . At the center of Las Colinas is Lake Carolyn; the community also includes the University of Dallas, North Lake Community College, Las Colinas Country Club, Texas Stadium, and the Trinity River Greenbelt Park. The site was settled during the late 1800s, and by the early 1900s a number of small towns, including Kit, Sowers, Finley, and Irving, were in the vicinity. In 1928 John W. Carpenter , father of the founder of Las Colinas, Ben Carpenter, established a ranch in the area; by 1959 the ranch, originally called Hackberry Creek Ranch, had grown to 6,000 acres. The ranch was renamed El Ranchito de Las Colinas (the little ranch of the hills) and was managed by John Carpenter's son Ben and Dan C. Williams. In the late 1960s the westward growth of Dallas prompted the men to develop the ranch as a residential area, but after plans for the D-FW Airport were revealed, Carpenter and Williams began developing a master-planned commercial and residential community. The project was to take some twenty years to complete and would originally encompass about 7,000 acres, 3,450 of which would be used for recreational and educational facilities and Lake Carolyn, a 125-acre man-made lake. The remaining acreage would include numerous business parks built around a public transportation system that would include the Mandalay Canal (a series of canals and water taxis) and the Area Personal Transit system (a system of elevated tracks and passenger vehicles that would serve 1,000 acres of Las Colinas). The community would also have residences for 50,000 people; the residences would be developed so as to preserve the natural setting. The development of Las Colinas was announced on September 14, 1973, as a joint venture of Southland Financial Corporation (represented by corporate president Ben H. Carpenter and chairman Dan C. Williams) and its subsidiary, the Las Colinas Corporation (represented by chairman Wayne Hurd and president Ernest O. Perry). At the date of the announcement the Las Colinas Country Club had already been completed and two residential areas were under construction. University Hills Village was next to the country club, and Northgate Village was at the southern end of the community. Additional acreage had already been donated for the University of Dallas and for a park on the nearby Elm Fork of the Trinity River. The Dallas County Community College system had also secured a section of land in the community for North Lake College. Construction on the infrastructure began along State Highway 114 (the John W. Carpenter Freeway), and Allstate Insurance Company, the first corporation to settle in Las Colinas, bought a section of land in the site for its new regional office building. In the next two years Las Colinas developed slowly because of a poor economy, but by 1975, 627 acres had been fully developed and two business parks had also been completed. In 1976 the Associates Corporation of North America moved its national headquarters to Las Colinas, and American Honda Corporation moved its regional headquarters there. Around 1977 the Las Colinas National Bank was chartered, and the world headquarters of Sunmark Exploration Company was established there. In 1978 the national headquarters of the Boy Scouts of America was moved to Las Colinas; both General Telephone and Electronics Corporation and General Motors Corporation established new headquarters in the community. Warehouse and distribution space was established at Las Colinas for Pioneer Electronics, Panasonic Company, and Super Valu stores. By April 1978, 831 apartments had been completed and 417 were under construction, and 1,807 homes had been completed and eighty-two were under construction. The number of

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Things to Do in Irving

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The Sixth Floor Museum

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

historical 8.5 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 11.2 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 22.7 mi away

Joe T. Garcia's

Joe T opened his little family restaurant behind the packing plant in the Fort Worth Stockyards in 1935. There was no menu. His wife Jessie served whatever she…

historical 23.1 mi away

Fort Worth Stockyards

Daily cattle drives down the street. Honky-tonks and rodeos in the old West.

historical 23.2 mi away

Billy Bob's Texas

Billy Bob's opened in 1981 in an old cattle barn in the Fort Worth Stockyards and at one hundred twenty-seven thousand square feet it is the largest honky-tonk…

food 9.7 mi away

Pecan Lodge

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

spooky 13.1 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…

Everything Near Irving

1965 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

Irving, TX
The name Irving has a charming origin, inspired by literature. It was founded in 1903 by J.O. 'Otto' Schulze and Otis Brown, who named the city after the beloved literary author Washington Irving. The choice of name was…
The 1948 Soda Fountain That Refused to Quit, Twice · 0.2 mi
On the corner of Irving Boulevard and Main, at 100 East Irving Boulevard in the old Heritage District, generations of locals slid onto stools at the Big State soda fountain. It opened in 1948 as a drugstore with a…
Schulze House · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Irving, and just ahead is a perfectly preserved piece of its early history. This is the Schulze House, built back in 1912 for Charles P. Schulze, a key figure in the local lumber business and…
Joffre-Gilbert House · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Joffre-Gilbert House in Irving. Built in 1919 by A. Fred Joffre, this airplane bungalow was a hub for pioneer doctor Franklin Monroe Gilbert and his wife Dorothy, a nurse. For almost thirty…
First Baptist Church of Irving · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Irving's first Baptist church. When this town was founded back in 1903, developers actually set aside land for three different denominations. The Baptist congregation organized in January…
City of Irving · 0.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Irving, Texas, a city that owes its start to a railroad survey and a barbecue. Back in 1903, railroad surveyor J.O. Schulze and his colleague Otis Brown bought some land from a farmer. They…
St. Luke Catholic Church · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Irving, and just off to the side here, you can see the history of St. Luke Catholic Church. Services for Catholics started way back in the 1860s, with mass held in private homes. Then, in 1902,…
The High School That Sent Out a Slugger and a ZZ Top Drummer · 0.7 mi
Irving High School at 900 North O'Connor Road, the city's oldest high school, dating to 1929, has quietly turned out a couple of genuine standouts. Trevor Story was born in Irving in 1992 and starred here as a shortstop…
The Quiet House Where the Rifle Was Hidden · 1.1 mi
This modest ranch house at 2515 West Fifth Street looks like any other on the block, but it sits at the edge of one of the 20th century's darkest days. In 1963 Ruth Paine, a Quaker who was learning Russian, took in…
The Largest Equestrian Sculpture on Earth, Running Through a Plaza · 1.1 mi
Up ahead at Williams Square, 5221 North O'Connor Boulevard, nine bronze mustangs come thundering across a granite plaza as if the pavement were a riverbed. This is the Mustangs of Las Colinas, billed as the largest…
The Driverless People Mover That Outlived Its Future · 1.1 mi
Glide through the Las Colinas Urban Center and you'll spot a slim elevated track threading between the office towers. That's the Las Colinas Area Personal Transit, or APT, one of the oldest automated people-mover…
The Town Two Railroad Surveyors Drew on a Map · 1.1 mi
You're rolling through a city that two young railroad men more or less conjured out of a survey line. In the fall of 1902, J.O. Schulze and Otis Brown came through this stretch of western Dallas County as part of a crew…

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The Flood That Cut Irving Off From the World · 1.1 mi
It's easy to forget, crossing the calm Trinity bottoms today, that this river once ran wild enough to swallow whole towns. In late May 1908 a multi-day downpour dumped some 15 inches of rain on the upper Trinity basin,…
The Founder's Brother Built This House for His Bride · 1.1 mi
At 303 South O'Connor Road stands the Irving Heritage House, the closest thing this railroad town has to a founding-era home you can walk through. C.P. Schulze built it in 1912 for his bride, Virginia Tucker of Dallas.…
South MacArthur Church of Christ · 1.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Irving, and right here is the story of the South MacArthur Church of Christ. Worship services started in this area way back in 1890. A proper sanctuary went up in 1903, on land given by the town…
Old Kit Cemetery · 1.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Old Kit Cemetery, a final resting place for many early settlers in this area. It began in 1896 when a family, passing through, buried their sick child here. Landowner David Chadwell Britain donated…
Kit Community · 1.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through the area that was once Kit, a settlement that grew from a farm belonging to John and Jestine Gorbit around 1850. It became a stop on a postal route and was renamed Kit in 1894 to avoid confusion…
Ruth Paine Home · 1.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Pull over a minute, because this unassuming house in Irving is tied to one of the most tragic events in American history: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Lee Harvey Oswald's wife, Marina, lived here with…
Site of the Dr. D. W. Gilbert Homestead · 1.9 mi · Historical Marker
Site of the Dr. D. W. Gilbert Homestead Mississippi native Daniel Webster "D.W." Gilbert (1854-1930) was one of three brothers who became Texas doctors. At age 20, he joined his brother, Franklin Monroe Gilbert, in…
Texas Stadium Site - America's Team · 2.2 mi · Historical Marker
Texas Stadium in Irving served as home to the Dallas Cowboys from 1971 to 2008. Its distinctive partial roof and the Cowboys' five Super Bowl wins made it an icon of American sports culture.
The Mustangs of Las Colinas · 2.4 mi
If you head to Williams Square in Las Colinas, you’ll find one of the most dynamic sculptures in the world. It’s a group of nine bronze mustangs, larger than life, splashing across a granite stream. They are the…
A People Mover Ahead of Its Time · 2.4 mi
As you navigate the streets of Las Colinas, look up. You might see strange, elevated concrete tracks that seem to go nowhere. These are the remnants of a bold, futuristic transportation experiment: the Las Colinas Area…
The Clock That Stopped the World · 2.4 mi
In September 2015, a story that started at MacArthur High School right here in Irving went global. A 14-year-old student named Ahmed Mohamed, who enjoyed tinkering with electronics, built a digital clock from a pencil…
Daniel Webster Gilbert, M. D. · 2.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the resting place of Dr. Daniel Webster Gilbert, a Mississippi native who arrived in Texas in 1874. After graduating from medical college, he practiced in Euless and Grapevine before moving to Sowers…
Dr. Franklin Monroe Gilbert · 2.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of a remarkable Irving career! Dr. Franklin Monroe Gilbert wasn't just a doctor; he was a teacher and principal first, before heading to medical school. After interning in New York, where he…
Sowers Cemetery · 2.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Sowers Cemetery, a resting place that began with a mystery. In 1868, an unnamed woman and her daughter were buried here on land owned by Seveir Smalley. Later, Edmund Sowers donated an acre in 1874,…
Sowers Community · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
By 1856, Edmund D. and Freelove Sowers, who came to Texas from Illinois, owned land in this vicinity. Along with their neighbors, including Jacob and Henry Caster, and William and Lucinda Haley, they farmed, hunted game…
Shady Grove Road Bridge · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past a spot that was once a vital artery connecting two growing cities. The Trinity River here caused major floods, especially in 1908. That disaster spurred flood control planning, and by 1930, a massive…
Union Bower Community · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be the Union Bower Community, just outside Irving. Settlers were drawn to this fertile land along the Elm Fork of the Trinity River back in the mid-1800s. The Smiths and the Voirin…
The Stadium With a Hole So God Could Watch the Cowboys · 2.8 mi
Where Highway 114 meets Loop 12, at 2401 East Airport Freeway, stood one of pro football's most famous buildings. Texas Stadium opened on October 24, 1971, and for 38 seasons it was home to the Dallas Cowboys, holding…
A 1910 Charter, Revived on a Thousand Hilltop Acres · 2.8 mi
On the rolling ground in the north of town sits the University of Dallas, a campus with a longer past than its buildings suggest. The name first appears in a charter from 1910, when the Vincentian Fathers applied it to…
The Diamond Built Beside the Hole in the Roof · 3.1 mi
Where State Highway One Eighty Three, State Highway One Fourteen and Loop Twelve meet in Irving, the interchange has an official name: the Irving Diamond Interchange. When the Legislature made it official in twenty…
Bear Creek Community · 3.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Irving, near where the Bear Creek community took root in the 1850s. After the Civil War, freedmen moved here, reuniting families torn apart by slavery. In 1878, Jim Green became the first African…
Trinity Portland Cement Company Cemetery · 3.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of a forgotten company town, a place called Eagle Ford, near Dallas. Back in 1909, the Southwestern States Portland Cement Company set up shop here. Many of its workers were Mexican…
Irving, TX · 3.3 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Irving, Texas, a city that owes its existence to a couple of railway surveyors. Back in 1902, O. Schulze and Otis Brown were laying tracks for the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf Railway between…
Cistercian Fathers · 3.3 mi · Tsha Handbook
Our Lady of Dallas Abbey, the home of the Cistercians in Texas, is located in Irving off Highway 114, near Texas Stadium, Las Colinas, and the University of Dallas. It comprises thirty-six acres dotted with elevations…
Las Colinas, TX · 3.3 mi · Tsha Handbook
Las Colinas is a commercial and residential community on State Highway 183, Interstate highways 35E and 635, and Belt Line Road within the city of Irving and ten miles northwest of Dallas in western Dallas County. It is…
University of Dallas · 3.3 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Irving, near Dallas, and right here is the University of Dallas. Its story starts way back in 1910, when Vincentian Fathers called their Holy Trinity College by this new name. That charter went…
Haley Memorial Cemetery · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving near the Haley Memorial Cemetery. It was established in 1875 when Lucinda Haley died and a one-acre site on the family farm was set aside. The cemetery was later enlarged, and it serves as a reminder of…
Eagle Ford Community · 3.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Eagle Ford Community, a place that started as a simple farm settlement and grew into something much bigger. Back in 1844, Enoch Horton and his family arrived, establishing large farms…
Jordan - Hight Family Cemetery · 3.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Jordan-Hight Family Cemetery, which began as a family burial ground in 1866. David Jordan provided land to bury his son-in-law, Robert Hight. The graveyard later became public, with members of…
California Crossing · 4.0 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.…
Shelton's Bear Creek Cemetery · 4.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Shelton's Bear Creek Cemetery, a final resting place with a story stretching back to the days of slavery. African Americans settled here after the Civil War, forming a community. In 1879, Minnie…
Jordan - Bowles House · 4.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Jordan-Bowles House, built around 1860 from hand-hewn logs along the Trinity River. David Jordan, who arrived from Tennessee about 1859, ran a farm, a store, and a stage stand right here on the…
Where the Breeders' Cup Came to the Prairie · 4.2 mi
Just north of Interstate 30 off Belt Line Road, at 1000 Lone Star Parkway, the thunder of thoroughbreds returned to North Texas when Lone Star Park opened for live racing in 1997. Pari-mutuel horse racing had been…
Shady Grove Cemetery · 4.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Shady Grove Cemetery, a place that started as a community hub over a century ago. In 1877, Louis Caster donated land for a graveyard, church, and school. His son-in-law added more land later. For…
The Trinity River Massacre · 4.3 mi
On the night of February 15, 1971, five law-enforcement officers were ambushed and most of them killed in the Trinity River bottoms near the Westmoreland bridge in West Dallas, in what became known as the Trinity River…
Horton Cemetery · 4.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Horton Cemetery, the final resting place for many of Dallas's earliest settlers. Enoch and Martha Horton arrived here with their ten children back in 1844, part of the ambitious Peters Colony.…
Hensley Field · 4.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Hensley Field, a place that played a huge role in American aviation history, especially during World War II. It started back in 1928 when Dallas bought this land for a training airfield because the…
The Prairie Navy at Hensley Field · 4.8 mi
Out at 9200 Jefferson Boulevard sits Hensley Field, and its story is stranger than most airfields can claim. The City of Dallas opened it in 1929 as a training field for reserve Army Air Corps pilots and named it for…
From Mustangs to Crusaders: The Jet Years · 4.8 mi
When the World War II contracts dried up, the giant aircraft plant on Grand Prairie's edge didn't sit empty for long. Around 1948 Chance Vought moved its operations into the former North American Aviation works and…
The Plant That Built a City · 5.0 mi
The Grand Prairie you're in today was fundamentally built by an airplane factory. In 1940, this was a farm town of about 1,500 people. That same year, ground was broken beside Hensley Field on North American Aviation's…
The Mile-Long Assembly Line · 5.0 mi
Imagine a factory floor so big it takes you 20 minutes to walk across. That was the engineering marvel inside Grand Prairie's North American Aviation plant during World War II. It was the first windowless, fully…
And They're Off! At Lone Star Park · 5.0 mi
One of Grand Prairie's most famous landmarks isn't a factory or a historic building—it's a racetrack. Lone Star Park, which opened in 1997, brought Class 1 horse racing back to North Texas after a nearly 60-year…
Grand Prairie, TX · 5.0 mi
The T&P Railroad played a crucial role in Grand Prairie's development when Alexander McRae Dechman traded half of his 'prairie' property to the railroad in 1876 to ensure it came through the town. The depot was named…
The Uptown's Second Act · 5.0 mi
If you find yourself on Main Street in downtown Grand Prairie, look for the glowing marquee of the Uptown Theater. It opened March seventeenth, 1950 — eleven hundred seats, a sloped floor so everybody could see,…
The Weekend City of Treasures · 5.0 mi
On the western edge of Grand Prairie sits a local landmark that’s part shopping mall, part county fair, and part treasure hunt. It’s Traders Village, a massive outdoor flea market that has been a DFW institution since…
The Town That Refused to Disappear · 5.0 mi
By the 1970s, Grays Prairie was fading. The post office was gone, and the count of people out here had dropped to around fifty. It was just another dot on an old map named for the Gray family, who came to this stretch…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Pinkston (Dallas) · 5.2 mi
Pinkston (Dallas, TX) placed on the 4A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Valente Garcia (0.525 avg, 1 HR); Christopher Narvaez (0.509 avg).
Hitch Cemetery · 5.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Hitch Cemetery, once part of a vast farm. William Henry Hitch brought his family here from Tennessee in 1855, settling this land. The oldest marked grave belongs to his young son, Haden, who died…
Selena Gomez Was Born Here · 5.5 mi
Before the platinum records, the streaming numbers, and the global fame, there was a baby born in Grand Prairie on July 22, 1992. Selena Marie Gomez came into the world here to teenage parents, Ricardo Gomez and Mandy…
Grand Prairie, TX · 5.5 mi
Grand Prairie's history is deeply intertwined with the defense and aviation industry. The city was first established as Dechman in 1863 by Alexander McRae Dechman, who named it after Big Prairie, Ohio. The town's…
When 18,000 People Built Warplanes on the Prairie · 5.5 mi
In 1940 the federal government picked the flat ground beside Hensley Field for a wartime aircraft plant, and within months Grand Prairie was transformed. North American Aviation transferred trainer production here from…
The Town a Broken Wagon Built · 5.5 mi
The city you're rolling into started with a breakdown. In 1863 a traveler named Alexander McRae Dechman was hauling supplies toward Fort Belknap when his wagon broke down out on the open prairie between Dallas and Fort…
Texas's Biggest Weekend Flea Market · 5.5 mi
Pull off at 2602 Mayfield Road on a weekend and you'll find one of the strangest, most sprawling institutions in North Texas: Traders Village. Opened in 1973, it grew into what's billed as the largest weekend flea…
A Vietnamese Town Square in a Former Walmart · 5.5 mi
At 2625 West Pioneer Parkway sits Asia Times Square, one of the largest Asian marketplaces in Texas and the cultural heart of Grand Prairie's substantial Vietnamese community. Many Vietnamese families settled in this…
The Lake Named for a Congressman · 5.5 mi
The big blue reservoir on the southwest edge of town is Joe Pool Lake, and it's younger than a lot of the people fishing it. Engineers dammed Mountain Creek with a rolled earthfill structure that was finished in…
The 1950 Picture Palace on Main Street · 5.6 mi
On Main Street, at 120 East Main, the Uptown Theatre still marks the heart of old downtown Grand Prairie. It opened to fanfare on March 17, 1950, back when this stretch of road was the main artery between Fort Worth and…
La Reunion Cemetery · 5.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the final resting place of some of Texas's earliest European colonists. Back in 1855, this was the burial ground for French, Belgian, and Swiss settlers who dreamed of a new life in Texas. Imagine…
Fuget Cemetery · 5.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Fuget Cemetery, a quiet resting place with roots stretching back to the earliest days of Dallas County. This land was first patented in 1843 to Peters colonists Rowland and Anna Huitt. Rowland…
Letot Cemetery · 5.8 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,…
Trinity Farms/Rancho Grande Cemetery · 5.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Trinity Farms/Rancho Grande Cemetery. This cemetery represents the last remaining physical reminder of the community of people who worked and lived on a vast commercial farm here known as the Dallas…
Copeland, H. V. · 5.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the former home of Dr. H. V. Copeland, a physician who served Grand Prairie for over fifty years. He moved here in 1908, when the town was just a small railroad stop of 500 people. Dr. Copeland,…
Avion Village · 6.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Avion Village in Grand Prairie, a fascinating experiment in housing from the 1940s. With defense production booming, Dallas faced a severe housing shortage. The government saw an opportunity to…
The Baptist Standard · 6.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of a publication that's been a voice for Texas Baptists for over a century. It all started in 1888, when Lewis Holland and John H. Boyet launched "The Baptist News" in Fannin County. The…
Bonnie Parker's Grave · 6.2 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…
Oath of Office of President Johnson · 6.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site where history was made on November 22nd, 1963. Right here, Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson took the oath of office as the 36th President of the United States, becoming the first Texan…
Texas' First Airmail and Passenger Service · 6.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Dallas' Love Field, the birthplace of Texas airmail and passenger service! On May 12, 1926, National Air Transport launched the state's first airmail service, sending planes like 'Miss Dallas' and…
Love Field · 6.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Dallas's historic Love Field! This place is a testament to the city's early aviation dreams. It all started back in 1903 with Oak Cliff resident Frank McCarroll's first flight. By 1910, a State Fair…
Parkland Memorial Hospital · 6.4 mi · Scraped Hmdb
This hospital is where President John F. Kennedy was rushed after being shot in 1963. On November 22nd, 1963, President Kennedy was shot while riding in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas. He was immediately…
Ford Cemetery · 6.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Grand Prairie, past a small patch of history. This is the Ford Cemetery, a remnant of the old Watson Community. Pinkney Harold Ford and his family arrived here from Kentucky in 1855, settling in…
The Island City · 6.5 mi
The most fascinating thing about Cockrell Hill isn't a building or a park—it's the city itself. Take a look at a map, and you'll see it's an 'enclave,' a political island of barely half a square mile, completely…
Love Field Took Elm Thicket · 6.5 mi
In 1881, formerly enslaved families and other Black settlers formed a farming community here, around a thicket of elm trees ringed by cornfields — a Freedman's town from the start. By the 1920s it had grown into a real…
The Infrastructure Island · 6.5 mi
Being an independent city completely surrounded by Dallas creates a fascinating engineering and infrastructure puzzle. Think about it: every drop of fresh water that flows into Cockrell Hill's pipes, and every bit of…
Cockrell Hill, TX · 6.5 mi
Cockrell Hill's history began with pioneer Brentwood Allen Cockrell and his son Woodrow, who established the town as a business venture. It served as a stage line stop between Dallas and El Paso, and by the late 1800s,…
La Reunion · 6.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of La Reunion, a French colony that sprang up right here in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1854</say-as>. Imagine a bit of France transplanted to Texas soil, with European settlers…
Grand Prairie Airfield · 6.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Grand Prairie Airfield, a place that trained nearly a thousand Navy pilots during World War II. The Navy bought this land in 1942, spending over $800,000 to build training facilities,…
West Fork United Presbyterian Church · 6.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the West Fork United Presbyterian Church in Grand Prairie. It all started back in 1870 when Reverend Andrew Shannon Hayter organized a Sabbath school for the local settlers. That first…
The Barrow Family Filling Station · 6.7 mi
At the corner of Singleton Boulevard and Borger Street in West Dallas, the Barrow family ran a filling station. Clyde Barrow's parents moved their small house to the lot, on what was then Eagle Ford Road, and attached a…
Southland Cemetery, Old · 6.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Old Southland Cemetery in Grand Prairie. This burial ground was founded in 1910 by Thomas H. Hall, who needed a closer place for the community to lay their loved ones to rest. He even used bois d'arc…
Western Heights Cemetery · 6.8 mi · Historical Marker
Western Heights Cemetery in Dallas has burials going back to the 1850s, on part of the old William Coombes Survey, and it was formally dedicated in 1881. Pioneers like W.R. Fisher and John Loupot are buried there, along…
How the Purple Heart Trail Grew Across Texas · 6.8 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…
Alexander Dobkins Family Cemetery · 6.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Euless, near where Alexander Dobkins settled in 1852. He was an ordained minister and served as postmaster for Estill's Station during the Civil War. His grave is the earliest marked here, on what…
Antioch Life Park Cemetery · 6.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Antioch Life Park Cemetery. Early African American pioneer Mose Jordan Sr. came to the Grand Prairie area as an enslaved person of David Jordan in 1852. As early as the late 1850s, this part of David…
Garvin Memorial Cemetery · 6.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Garvin Memorial Cemetery, a final resting place for some of Dallas's earliest settlers. Graves here stretch back to the 1870s. The land itself was a gift from James G. Garvin, a former Dallas…
Western Heights Church of Christ · 7.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is where a church community got its start way back in 1872. It all began when Confederate Brig. Gen. Richard M. Gano, a Civil War comrade of Major B. F. Robinson, preached…
Livestone Lodge No. 152, F. & A. M. · 7.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Livestone Lodge, a historic gathering place for the African American community in Grand Prairie. Chartered in 1903 by the Prince Hall Masons, this lodge started east of town in a…
Merrifield Cemetery · 7.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Merrifield Cemetery, a quiet resting place for some of Dallas's earliest settlers. John Merrifield, the patriarch of a Kentucky family, bought this farm in 1851. This land became a cemetery in the…
Bilbo Jitney Line · 7.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and just over a century ago, getting around town was a whole different story. Back in 1915, if you needed to get to places like Cement City or Irving, and public transport was nowhere to…
Sunset High School · 7.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Sunset High School, the sixth oldest high school in Dallas, serving the Oak Cliff community for 90 years. Designed by talented Texas architects, its first buildings opened in September…
Bear Creek Cemetery · 7.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Bear Creek Cemetery, a burial ground that's been serving eastern Tarrant County since the late 1800s. The earliest marked grave here is that of Hiram Jackson Farris, who died in 1858. Isham Crowley,…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Ranchview (Irving) · 7.3 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).
Trinity Presbyterian Church, USA · 7.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Oak Cliff, Dallas, and you're passing Trinity Presbyterian Church. It started way back in the late 1880s as just a Sunday School. Then, in 1890, Reverend Daniel G. Molloy officially organized it…
Dallas Baptist University (Decatur Baptist College) · 7.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site where a major Texas educational institution got its start. Look to your right, and you'll see Dallas Baptist University, but it began right here, back in 1898, as Decatur Baptist College. It…
Brown, F. A. · 7.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the F. A. Brown Farm Home, a Victorian farmhouse that's seen nearly a century and a half of Dallas history. Francis Asbury Brown bought this place in 1885, adding it to 200 acres of farmland. His son…
Cochran Chapel Methodist Church · 7.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Dallas County's first Methodist church. In 1856, a widow named Nancy Jane Cochran donated this land, making it the first plot in the county ever deeded for a Methodist church. The first…
Cochran Homeplace (W. P.) · 7.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the W. P. Cochran Homeplace in Dallas. This Victorian house, built in 1895, was home to William P. Cochran, his wife Amanda, and their large family. The land itself has a long history here, with…
Cochran Chapel Cemetery · 7.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Cochran Chapel Cemetery. This burial ground began in 1853 with the interments of Sarah Jane and William M. Cochran. Many Dallas County pioneers are buried here, including sisters of Nancy Jane Hughes…
Cedar Springs · 7.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Dallas, and right here is where a town called Cedar Springs used to be. Back in the late 1830s, this area was surveyed for a military road. But it wasn't until 1843 that Dr. John Cole and his…
P.A. Watson Cemetery · 7.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the P.A. Watson Cemetery, a final resting place with a frontier story. The first burial here was Mrs. Micajah Goodwin in 1846. Her family, new to the area, built her coffin from their wagon bed and…
Once rivaled Dallas for county seat · 7.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Cedar Springs, the earliest known historic site in Dallas County. Back in 1840, Colonel Wm. G. Cooke passed through here, scouting a route between Austin and the Red River. Then, in 1843, Dr. John…
Reichenstein Home · 7.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the former home of Jacob Reichenstein, a big name in Dallas lumber. Starting as a clerk in 1902, Reichenstein worked his way up, becoming president of his company by 1918. This house, built for his…
The Highway Law That Requires a Fedora · 7.6 mi
Interstate Thirty between Dallas and Fort Worth is the Tom Landry Highway, and the law that named it spells out the artwork. The two thousand one statute requires a depiction of a fedora on each marker. That was…
Thirty Two Minutes on Walnut Hill Lane · 7.6 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,…
Southwestern Medical College · 7.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of a medical giant. Southwestern Medical College opened its doors in 1943, born from a foundation dedicated to top-tier medical education. During World War II, it even trained army…
The Calatrava Arch Named for H. L. Hunt's Daughter · 7.7 mi
The Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge carries Spur Three Sixty Six, the Woodall Rodgers Freeway, across the Trinity River from downtown Dallas into West Dallas. The Dallas City Council commissioned the Spanish architect…
Turtle Creek Pump Station · 7.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past a piece of Dallas history today! Look for the brick building with the fancy masonry – that's the old Turtle Creek Pump Station. Built way back in 1909, this wasn't just any building; it was the…
Winnetka Heights · 7.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, heading into the historic Winnetka Heights neighborhood. Platted in 1908, this was billed as the city's ideal suburb. Look around – most of these houses went up by 1915, showcasing prairie…
Parkland Hospital · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Parkland Hospital in Dallas. This is the hospital that became world-famous on November 22nd, 1963. After President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, it was to this facility that he…
Dallas Baby Camp · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is the site of a Texas first: the Southwest's very first Baby Camp. In 1913, a private nurse named May Forster Smith saw too many poor infants suffering from dehydration and…
Billl and Maude Dodson House · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the home of Bill and Maude Dodson in Farmers Branch. Bill Dodson, a World War I veteran and real estate man, became the city's first mayor in 1946. He led the charge to incorporate Farmers Branch to…
Site of Bird's Fort · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Bird's Fort, established in 1840 by Jonathan Bird. This wasn't just any outpost; it sat on the Military Road connecting Red River to Austin. More importantly, this area was the site of a…
Pediatric Orthopedic Care in Texas · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is the site of a groundbreaking medical facility. Back in 1921, Dallas's first orthopedic surgeon, Dr. William B. Carrell, teamed up with local Masons to open a free clinic…
The Hord Log Cabin · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Dallas's very first permanent structure on the west side of the Trinity River! Look for the hand-hewn logs of the Hord Log Cabin. Judge William H. Hord brought his family here by covered…
Commercial Horticulture in Euless · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Euless, a town whose economy has been deeply rooted in growing things since the 1800s. It's all thanks to the sandy soil, perfect for nurseries. Back in 1879, Ambrose Boyd started Tarrant County…
Euless School · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Euless, and right here is the site of the original Euless School. Back in 1913, folks in the area decided to combine three small school districts into one: the Euless Common School District. They…
A Slice of Tonga in the Mid-Cities · 7.9 mi
Euless holds one of the most unexpected cultural concentrations in Texas: one of the largest Tongan communities anywhere outside the kingdom of Tonga itself, estimated at several thousand people. The story traces to the…
Milk, Eggs, and Bread at the Ice Dock · 7.9 mi
Seven-Eleven started on Edgefield Avenue in Oak Cliff, at Twelfth Street, at an ice dock. In nineteen twenty seven a Southland Ice Company man named John Jefferson Green, known as Uncle Johnny, ran the dock there.…
Euless, TX · 7.9 mi · Tsha Handbook
Euless is at the intersection of State highways 10 and 183, on the southwest side of the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, north of the West Fork of the Trinity River in Tarrant County. Bird's Fort was established at a site…
Where the Bear Creeks Meet · 7.9 mi
Long before there was an airport runway or a freeway interchange, a pioneer named Isham Crowley led a small party to this land around 1845 and stopped where two streams came together, Big Bear Creek and Little Bear…
Euless, TX · 7.9 mi
Euless, Texas, has a rich history that began with Elisha Adam Euless, a Tennessee native who moved to Texas in 1867. He purchased 170 acres of land where he started a cotton gin and a community center, quickly becoming…
A Road Named for a Cemetery Not Yet Open · 7.9 mi
Spur Four Oh Eight in Dallas County, from Interstate Twenty up to Loop Twelve, is the Patriot Parkway. The Texas Legislature named it in May of nineteen ninety seven, to commemorate the achievements of veterans buried…
Gilbert House · 7.9 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…
Merrell Cemetery · 7.9 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…
First United Methodist Church of Euless · 7.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past First United Methodist Church of Euless. In the late 1860s, families began moving to this area from Bedford and Coffee Counties, Tennessee, areas steeped in Methodism. Local Methodists believed to…
Cable Tool Rig · 8.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past a piece of Texas oil history! This derrick is an exact replica of the rigging used back in 1920. That year, this type of cable tool rig drilled the Crowley No. 1 well, one of the deepest in Texas at…
Carousel · 8.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past a spot where, not too long ago, the arrival of a carousel was a HUGE deal in Texas towns. These horse-drawn wonders, powered by the cheerful tunes of a calliope, weren't just for fun. They were…
Narrow Gauge Railway · 8.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Arlington, and you might not realize it, but this area was once home to some of the most economical railroads in Texas. Between <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1853</say-as> and <say-as…
Tyler Street United Methodist Church · 8.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Tyler Street United Methodist Church in Dallas. Back in 1911, the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, sent Reverend J. Leonard Rea to start a new parish here. They organized with 166…
The Six Flags over Texas · 8.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Arlington, and right here, this marker tells the story of the Six Flags over Texas! Imagine, six different nations have claimed this land. It started with Spain in 1519, planting their banner in…
The Very First Six Flags · 8.1 mi
Every Six Flags amusement park on earth traces back to one 212-acre lot in Arlington. The original park opened here in 1961, dreamed up by a developer who had visited Disneyland and wanted something like it for Texas.…
Stephen J. Hay School · 8.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, passing the site of the former Stephen J. Hay Elementary School. Hay, a Georgia native, arrived in Dallas in 1887 and quickly became a civic leader. In 1907, he was elected the first mayor…
Calloway Cemetery · 8.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Calloway Cemetery in Euless. The earliest marked graves here belong to brothers Richard and Joseph Calloway, who owned this land in the 1860s. Richard's widow deeded land in 1886 for a public burial…
Margaret McDermott and the Calatrava Arches · 8.2 mi
Interstate Thirty's crossing of the Trinity River in Dallas is the Margaret McDermott Bridge, named by the Texas Legislature in two thousand seven. Margaret McDermott was born in Austin on February eighteenth, nineteen…
Myers, David · 8.2 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…
Pike Park · 8.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is Pike Park. It started out as Summit Play Park, purchased by the city way back in 1912. By the 1920s, it was serving a growing Mexican-American neighborhood. The name…
Texian Land and Emigration Company · 8.2 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…
First Methodist Society, Dallas County's · 8.2 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…
Keenan Cemetery · 8.2 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 · 8.2 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…
Oaklawn United Methodist Church · 8.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas. It all started back in 1874 when a settler named Marcus Cullum preached in a grove on Turtle Creek. That same year, on September 20th, he…
Minter's Chapel Cemetery · 8.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're passing Minter's Chapel Cemetery, a place that holds a story of faith and resilience. Around 1854, Lay Minister Green Minter helped start the Minter's Chapel Methodist Church right here. His son-in-law donated…
Minters Chapel Methodist Church · 8.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Minters Chapel Methodist Church, a community cornerstone established way back in 1854. Four pioneer families banded together, holding early services in a log cabin on land donated by…
First Baptist Church of Farmers Branch · 8.2 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…
The Plant That Built a City · 8.3 mi
When General Motors opened an assembly plant in Arlington in 1954, it was the first automobile factory in Texas, and the first car to roll off the line was a Pontiac Chieftain. The plant transformed the town:…
Thomas L. Bradford · 8.3 mi · Historical Marker
Driving through Dallas, you're passing the former home of Thomas L. Bradford, a man who wore many hats in this city. Born in Louisiana in 1869, Bradford moved to Dallas in the 1890s and quickly made his mark. He was a…
Cox House · 8.3 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…
Miller, John Hickman · 8.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, heading past a piece of architectural history. This elegant home, built in 1904, was a wedding gift from businessman John Hickman Miller to his wife, Katherine. It's one of the few…
Christ Church Episcopal · 8.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Dallas's Christ Church Episcopal, founded way back in 1890. This building, completed in 1921, is a stunning example of the Arts and Crafts style, especially its hand-painted stained glass windows.…
Five Mile Cemetery · 8.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Five Mile Cemetery, a burial ground that may have seen use as early as the 1840s. Abraham Bast, who donated land for a church and school here in 1859, is buried here, as is Arthur Ledbetter, who…
The Thunder of the Trinity Haka · 8.4 mi
In Euless, the sound of Friday night is more than just cheering; it's the thunder of the Haka. At Trinity High School, home of the Trojans, the football team has a pre-game ritual that has become legendary across the…
The First Shopping Center in America Wore a Spanish Coat · 8.4 mi
At the corner of Mockingbird Lane and Preston Road sits a retail idea so ordinary now that it is hard to believe somebody had to invent it. Highland Park Village, opened in 1931, is widely credited as the first…
The Airport That Built a City · 8.4 mi
The single greatest engineering feat to shape Euless is the massive machine humming just north of the city: Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. When it opened in 1974, it was the largest airport ever built. The…
Samuel David Dealey, Jr. · 8.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of a true American hero, Commander Samuel David Dealey, Jr. Born right here in Dallas in 1906, Dealey became one of World War II's most legendary submariners. He commanded the USS…
The Cemetery in the Office Park · 8.4 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 · 8.4 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 · 8.4 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…
The Crash That Taught Aviation to Fear the Microburst · 8.4 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 Iron Horse Arrives · 8.4 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…
Euless, TX · 8.4 mi
Euless, Texas, was named after Elisha Adam Euless, a Tennessee native who moved to Texas in 1867. He bought 170 acres of land at the intersection of North Main St. and West Euless Boulevard, where he started a cotton…
Robert E. Lee Park · 8.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past a spot that used to be Oak Lawn Park, a five-cent streetcar ride away for Dallas residents back in 1903. The Dallas Consolidated Electric Street Railway Company bought the land, teaming up with…
Arlington Downs Racetrack · 8.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the former site of Arlington Downs, a legendary racetrack built by oilman W.T. Waggoner in the 1920s. Imagine this: a mile-and-a-quarter track, a massive grandstand packed with 6,000 cheering fans,…
Webb Chapel Cemetery · 8.4 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,…
Arbor Daze: The Tree Festival · 8.4 mi
Every spring, Euless celebrates trees. Arbor Daze is the city's signature event, and Euless has earned the right to it — more than thirty years running as a Tree City USA. The festival grew straight out of that: since…
Frank Reagh · 8.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of an artist who captured the soul of the Texas longhorn. Frank Reagh, born in 1860, began his lifelong study of these iconic cattle right here in Texas in 1876, after moving from…
Texas School Book Depository · 8.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Stand where history changed forever; this is the Texas School Book Depository. On November November 22, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald fired shots from a sixth-floor window, mortally wounding President John F. Kennedy as the…
Dealey Plaza - JFK Assassination · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
At 12:30 p.m. on November 22, 1963, three shots echoed across this plaza and changed the course of American history. President John F. Kennedy's motorcade was moving slowly down Elm Street, past the Texas School Book…
Texas School Book Depository Building · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, past the building forever known as the Texas School Book Depository. Originally built in 1901 after a fire destroyed the previous structure, this Romanesque Revival building gained dark…
The Sixth Floor Museum · 8.5 mi · Things to Do
Where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from. The JFK assassination site at Dealey Plaza.
Dealey Plaza · 8.5 mi · Things to Do
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…
Highland Park High School · 8.5 mi
Highland Park High School in the Park Cities of Dallas, Texas (4220 Emerson Ave.), produced an extraordinary trio of championship athletes: Matthew Stafford (Super Bowl LVI champion quarterback, #1 overall pick in the…
UIL 5A Football State Champions — 3 titles · 8.5 mi
Highland Park High School (Dallas, TX): Most recent: 27-17 over Alvin Shadow Creek · 2018 5A Division 1 final.
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum · 8.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Step back in time to a place dedicated to remembrance and reflection. The Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum stands as a powerful reminder of the atrocities of the Holocaust and other human rights violations.…
John Neely Bryan, 1810-1877 and Margaret Beeman Bryan, 1825-1919 · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, the city founded by John Neely Bryan. In 1839, he picked this bluff on the Trinity River for a trading post. By 1841, he'd platted a town and named it Dallas. His wife, Margaret Beeman…
Dallas County Criminal Courts Bldg. · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Dallas County Criminal Courts Building, a steel-framed structure finished in 1915. Designed by local architect H. A. Overbeck, it's built with granite, terra cotta, and brick in a Renaissance…
Alexander Cockrell_Sarah Horton Cockrell · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Alexander Cockrell_Sarah Horton Cockrell. Alexander Cockrell (June 8, 1820 - April 3, 1858) Sarah Horton Cockrell (Jan. 13, 1819 - April 26, 1892) Alexander Cockrell came to Dallas area in 1845.…
One Hundred Thirty Nine Hours Below Freezing · 8.5 mi
In February two thousand twenty one, Dallas froze. At DFW Airport the temperature stayed at or below freezing for one hundred thirty nine straight hours, from five in the afternoon on February thirteenth to noon on…
Highland Park Village · 8.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Get ready to step back in time to a place that revolutionized how America shops! Highland Park Village, right here in Dallas, holds the title of the very first planned shopping center in the United States. Developers…
Central National Road · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, but imagine a time when this area was the wild frontier. Back in the 1840s, pioneers coming from the U.S. crossed the Red River and entered Texas. By 1844, the Republic of Texas…
Flippen Homestead · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of what would become Dallas' exclusive Highland Park neighborhood. It all started in 1906 when Colonel John S. Armstrong bought over a thousand acres, including a horse farm called 'Lomo…
Preston Road · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving along a route with deep roots. Preston Road follows a pre-Columbian Indian trail, later staked out by the Republic of Texas to connect Austin to Fort Preston, built in 1841 near the Red River. Later, this…
Site of First Ferry and Bridge · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Dallas's very first river crossing! Back in 1842, John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas himself, started the first ferry operation right here on the Trinity River. Just twelve years…
Maple Avenue · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving north of downtown Dallas, and you're passing through a neighborhood that was once the height of Dallas society. In 1884, a streetcar line pushed north, opening up this area for development by the North…
Euless, Elisha Adam · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Euless, a town named after the man who settled here in 1867. Elisha Adam Euless bought land in this area, and a community grew up around his farm, a cotton gin, and a grange hall. That hall, built…
Higginbotham - Pearlstone Building · 8.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Higginbotham-Pearlstone Building, a four-story brick structure that's been a focal point of Dallas's historic west end. Constructed back in 1909, it first housed the Hobson Electric company…
The Downtown Under Downtown · 8.5 mi
Underneath downtown Dallas there's a second downtown. In the nineteen sixties, urban planner Vincent Ponte designed a network of pedestrian tunnels, underground truck depots, and sky bridges to keep people and cars on…
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial · 8.6 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Stand here and reflect on a day that changed America forever. This starkly beautiful memorial marks a place forever linked to tragedy: Dealey Plaza, near the site of President John F. Kennedy's assassination. On…
Two Football Legends From One High School Hallway · 8.6 mi
Highland Park High School, which actually sits in University Park, may have the most loaded sports backstory of any school its size in Texas. In the early 1940s two of its students were Doak Walker and Bobby Layne, who…
Union Station · 8.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is the historic Union Station. By the early 1900s, Dallas needed one central hub for its many railroads. Seven lines joined forces in 1912 to hire architect Jarvis Hunt, who…
Women's Suffrage in Dallas County · 8.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, the birthplace of the first organized women's suffrage movement in Texas! Back in May 1893, the Texas Equal Rights Association, later the League of Women Voters, was formed right here. For…

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