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Rivers & Roads in Song near Oak Cliff

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Trinity River 11 songs Interstate 45 8 songs Interstate 20 13 songs Texas State Highway 199 8 songs Interstate 35 45 songs Chisholm Trail 8 songs

Musical Heritage

Robert Johnson at 508 Park RoadyGoat

On a summer weekend in nineteen thirty seven, Robert Johnson came to downtown Dallas to make records, and they turned out to be his last. The place was five oh eight Park Avenue, near Park and Young streets, a building Warner Brothers had put up in nineteen twenty nine as a film exchange. In the nineteen thirties it also held the Dallas branch office of Brunswick Records, which owned the Vocalion label. On Saturday and Sunday, June nineteenth and twentieth, nineteen thirty seven, producer Don Law set Johnson up in an unused storage area on the third floor, and over those two days he cut thirteen songs, among them Hellhound on My Trail, Love in Vain, and Me and the Devil Blues. Johnson died in August nineteen thirty eight. The proof of exactly where it happened came from a nineteen sixty one letter from producer Frank Driggs, where Law wrote in the margin that they recorded in a makeshift studio in their own branch office. Hundreds of other records were cut in that building too, by Gene Autry, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, and the Light Crust Doughboys among them. Later a liquor distributor filed to tear it down. In two thousand eleven the Stewpot, a ministry of nearby First Presbyterian Church, bought it, and it became the heart of Encore Park.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan, Oak Cliff Kid RoadyGoat

Stevie Ray Vaughan was a Dallas kid before he was an Austin legend. He was born at Methodist Hospital in Dallas on October third, nineteen fifty four, and grew up in Oak Cliff, in his family's house on Glenfield Avenue, a few blocks from Kiest Park. His big brother Jimmie later said the two of them played in Kiest Park as kids, and that Stevie cut through the park on his way to and from Kimball High School. In nineteen seventy two Stevie dropped out of Kimball and moved to Austin. But he came back. In November nineteen eighty six, after rehab, he moved back into his mother's house on Glenfield Avenue. He died in a helicopter crash in Wisconsin in nineteen ninety, and he's buried at Laurel Land Memorial Park in south Dallas. In two thousand twenty one the City of Dallas dedicated a sculpture in Kiest Park honoring Stevie and Jimmie, called We Are Music and Music Is Us, by Casto Solano. The city called it the first public art to celebrate Dallas musicians.

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History of Oak Cliff

Oak Cliff's Freedman's Town Endures RoadyGoat

After emancipation in 1865, freed people including Arch Miller settled here on Cedar Creek, just south of a Black burial ground already on this ground. By 1887 the community took its name from Tenth Street. In January 1888, Anthony Boswell became one of the first Black landowners here, and church trustees bought property soon after. The neighborhood grew into a real town — homes, churches, businesses — built mostly between 1888 and 1947, on land that once ran close to 300 acres. Dallas named it a landmark district in 1993, and in 1994 it went on the National Register of Historic Places. Today Tenth Street is recognized as the largest and most intact freedman's town left in the United States — not in Fort Worth, as some accounts mistakenly say, but here in Oak Cliff, south of the Trinity River. Houses built by those families still stand on these streets today.

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The Bridge the Flood Built RoadyGoat

The Houston Street Viaduct, the long run of concrete arches between downtown Dallas and Oak Cliff, exists because of a flood. In late May nineteen oh eight the Trinity rose more than fifty feet and swept away or swamped every bridge, and for a while boats were Oak Cliff's only link to downtown. In August nineteen oh nine, Dallas County voters approved a six hundred thousand dollar bond, work began in October nineteen ten, and the viaduct opened on February twenty second, nineteen twelve. It has fifty one concrete arches, and its central span was built ninety feet above the river channel so ocean-going boats could pass, back when Dallas dreamed of a navigable Trinity. In nineteen twelve it was hailed as the world's longest bridge of its kind, though a later researcher found a viaduct in Kansas City was longer. One account says the concrete was mixed with raw sewage from the Trinity, because a drought had dried up the other water. The plan was to christen it with a bottle of wine, but the women's clubs of Dallas, led by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, objected, so the organizers released homing pigeons instead. The roadway left room for two sets of interurban tracks, but the rails were never laid. A streetcar finally crossed it in two thousand fifteen, running on batteries, because the bridge's historic status kept overhead wires off it.

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Milk, Eggs, and Bread at the Ice Dock RoadyGoat

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. Grocery stores closed by six in the evening, but ice docks stayed open sixteen hours a day and were about the only businesses open on Sundays, so customers kept asking Green to keep a few groceries on hand: milk, eggs, bread. Grocery shelves went into the ice docks, and Southland's Jodie Thompson, an Oak Cliff kid who had grown up on Edgefield at Tenth and groomed ice-wagon horses when he was eight, made the grocery business his main focus. As a marketing idea, Southland ordered totem poles from Alaska for the fronts of its stores and called them Tote'm stores. On January first, nineteen forty six, they all got one new name, for their hours, seven in the morning to eleven at night: Seven-Eleven. The Edgefield lot was a Seven-Eleven store for years. The building there today houses the LULAC National Education Service Centers.

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Dealey Plaza - JFK Assassination

1963

President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in his motorcade through Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.

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Texas School Book Depository Building

1963

This site was originally owned by John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas. During the 1880s French native Maxime Guillot operated a wagon shop here. In 1894 the land was purchased by Phil L. Mitchell, president and director of the Rock Island Plow Company of Illinois. An office building for the firm's Texas division, known as the Southern Rock Island Plow Company, was completed here four years later. In 1901 the five-story structure was destroyed by fire. That same year, under supervision of the company vice president and general manager F. B. Jones, work was completed on this structure. Built to resemble the earlier edifice, it features characteristics of the commercial Romanesque Revival style. In 1937 the Carraway Byrd Corporation purchased the property. Later, under the direction of D. H. Byrd, the building was leased to a variety of businesses, including the Texas School Book Depository. On November 22, 1963, the building gained national notoriety when Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly shot and killed President John F. Kennedy from a sixth floor window as the presidential motorcade passed the site. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1980

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Parkland Hospital

1963

Dallas first opened a city hospital on Lamar street in 1874, moving to Maple Avenue in the 1890s. In 1913, a new state of the art facility was erected, reflecting a nationwide movement toward modern medical care. The new building was the source of development for the neighborhood as a medical center and also the first home to Southwestern Medical College (now the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School). In 1954, Parkland Hospital relocated to a new facility at 5201 Harry Hines Blvd, where it set standards in healthcare and in medical advances. On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was taken to that facility following his assassination. Today, Parkland Hospital continues to be a leader in providing medical care to the needy.

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Kennedy Assassination

1963

On November 21, 1963, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy left Washington, D.C., for Texas to attend several official functions, to present his administration's views in personal speeches, and to help reunify the conservative and liberal wings of the Democratic party in Texas. He first flew to San Antonio to join Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in dedicating the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, attended a testimonial dinner in Houston for United States representative Albert Thomas, then flew to Fort Worth and spent the night at Hotel Texas. On the morning of November 22 he addressed a breakfast sponsored by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, then flew to Dallas, where began a motorcade trip in an open car with his wife Jacqueline (Bouvier) Kennedy, Governor John B. Connally , and the governor's wife, Idanell (Brill) Connally . The motorcade travelled through town toward the Dallas Trade Mart, where Kennedy was to speak at a luncheon. At 12:30 P.M., as the car started down the Elm Street hill leading beneath a railroad overpass in Dealey Plaza, several shots were fired, and Kennedy and Connally were hit. They were rushed to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where the president was pronounced dead at 1:00 P.M. from wounds in the neck and head. Connally, wounded in the back, wrist, and thigh, recovered. At 2:38 P.M. Johnson was sworn in as president by United States district judge Sarah T. Hughes , with Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson and Kennedy's widow in attendance, at Love Field on the plane that returned Kennedy's body to Washington that evening. Between 1:45 and 2:00 P.M. of the same day, Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested in the Texas Theatre in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas and charged with the murder of policemen J. D. Tippit . On November 23 Oswald was charged with murdering Kennedy with a rifle fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository . On November 24 Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby , a Dallas lounge operator, in the basement of the city jail while being transferred to the county jail. Ruby was indicted for murder on November 26, 1963, and was convicted on March 14, 1964. The conviction was appealed, and in November, 1966, a new trial with a change of venue was ordered. Ruby died on January 3, 1967, before the second trial began. On November 29, 1963, President Johnson established the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, also known as the Warren Commission, which consisted of seven men representing the United States Supreme Court, Senate, House of Representatives, the public, and the Central Intelligence Agency. Chaired by Chief Justice Earl Warren, the commission met first on December 5, 1963, and submitted its multivolume report on September 24, 1964. From the moment of publication, the report was both criticized and defended vigorously. Hundreds of books and articles have been written on the subject. Skeptics are critical of the commission's inquiry or offer alternate theories about the circumstances and events connected with the assassination. Conversely, many defenders of the Warren report have debunked a number of conspiracy theories. Although the commission concluded that Oswald acted alone, they also noted that it was impossible to prove conclusively that no conspiracy existed. In February 1975, Congressman Henry B. Gonzales introduced House Resolution 204 to convene a House select committee to reexamine the assassinations of President Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The committee, which met several times between 1977 and 1979, concluded in its final report (July 1979) that JFK "was probably killed as the result of a conspiracy" but admitted that "the Committee was unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy." In 1989 the Sixth Floor Museum was opened in the former Texas School Book Depository building as a museum and memorial to President Kennedy. In 1992, as a result of increased public

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Oswald, Lee Harvey

1963

Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 18, 1939, the third son of Marguerite Claverie Oswald. His father, Robert Lee Oswald, had died of a heart attack two months earlier. Young Oswald was placed in a Lutheran orphanage at the age of three, but he was removed when his mother left for Dallas in January 1944 and remarried. His schooling began in Benbrook, Texas, but he reentered the first grade in Covington, Louisiana, in 1946; he continued his education in Fort Worth in January 1947, as a result of his mother's separation and divorce. After he and his mother moved to New York in August 1952, he became a chronic truant and was placed under psychiatric care. They moved again to New Orleans in January 1954; in 1955 Oswald left school and tried unsuccessfully to join the Marine Corps. He found a job and used his spare time to pursue his growing interest in communist literature. He returned to Fort Worth with his mother in July of the following year and in October 1956 joined the Marine Corps. He served fifteen months overseas, mostly in Japan; later he served in California. After an appeal based on the illness of his mother, he was released early from the service in September 1959. A month later Oswald left for the Soviet Union, entering through Finland. He tried to commit suicide when ordered out of Russia, but while attempting to renounce his United States citizenship he was permitted to remain and work in a Russian radio factory. On April 30, 1961, he married Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova. A daughter was born in February 1962, and in June, after prolonged efforts, Oswald was allowed to return with his family to the United States. He lived in Fort Worth until October, when he moved to Dallas. On April 10, 1963, he attempted to kill Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker at the latter's home; the bullet missed Walker by inches. In late April, upon his return to New Orleans, Oswald organized a so-called Fair Play for Cuba Committee. He went to Mexico in September in an unsuccessful effort to get a visa to Cuba and the Soviet Union, and he returned in October to Dallas. A second daughter was born at that time. Oswald was arrested on November 22, 1963, and later charged with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the murder of policeman J. D. Tippit . It was alleged that Oswald positioned himself in a sixth-story window of the Texas School Book Depository and there fired on the motorcade of President Kennedy and Governor John B. Connally . It was also claimed that Oswald killed J. D. Tippit shortly after the assassination while resisting arrest. Oswald was finally arrested in a movie theater that same day in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas. Two days later, on November 24, Oswald was shot and killed by Jack Ruby in the basement of the city jail while being transferred to the county jail. He was buried in Fort Worth. See also KENNEDY ASSASSINATION .

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Roe v. Wade

1970

A Texas case stands at the center of years of national debate about the issue of abortion. That case, Roe v. Wade , was decided by the United States Supreme Court on January 22, 1973. The ruling basically held that women have a right, under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, to decide whether to continue or to terminate a pregnancy. It overturned a Texas law making all abortions (except those performed to save the life of the woman) illegal, and by implication overturned antiabortion statutes in most other states. The roots of the case lie in Austin, Texas, during the late 1960s. A group of local volunteers were telling women about birth control and how to avoid pregnancy. Their action followed a 1965 Supreme Court case, Griswold v. Connecticut , which overturned state laws making criminal the use of contraception. However, some women who approached them were already pregnant and wanted to know where and how to get an abortion. The volunteers originally wanted to know whether they could legally provide that information, including information about illegal abortion providers in Texas and Mexico, or whether doing so would subject them to possible prosecution as accomplices to the crime of abortion. In March 1970 a suit was filed in Dallas in a three-judge federal district court on behalf of a pregnant woman known as Jane Roe (later identified as Norma McCorvey ) and all other women "who were or might become pregnant and want to consider all options." The suit was against Henry Wade , the district attorney at Dallas, an official responsible for enforcing criminal laws, including antiabortion statutes. The suit asked that the Texas law be declared unconstitutional and that an injunction be issued telling Wade to stop prosecuting doctors who performed abortions. The three-judge court declared that the "freedom to choose in the matter of abortions has been accorded the status of a `fundamental' right in every case the court had examined, and that the burden is on the defendant to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the court that the infringement [by the Texas abortion laws] is necessary to support a compelling state interest." Although this burden was not met and the court declared the Texas law unconstitutional, the court still refused to issue an injunction against Wade. The following day Wade announced that he would continue to prosecute physicians who provided abortion services. Both sides appealed, and eventually the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. The Supreme Court's 1973 decision held that there was a constitutional right of privacy. Seven justices joined the majority opinion written by Justice Harry Blackmun; two justices dissented. The opinion written by Justice Blackmun said in part: The constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. In a line of decisions, however...the Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution....These decisions make it clear that only personal rights that can be deemed "fundamental" or "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty"...are included in this guarantee of personal privacy. They also make it clear that the right has some extension to activities relating to marriage...procreation... contraception...family relationships...and child rearing and education. This right of privacy, whether it be founded in the Fourteenth Amendment's concept of personal liberty and restrictions upon state action, as we feel it is, or, as the District Court determined, in the Ninth Amendment's reservation of rights to the people, is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy. The detriment that the state would impose upon the pregnant woman by denying this choice altogether is apparent. Justices William Rehnquist and Byron White, the two dissenting justices, asserted that there was no right of personal privacy such as that recogniz

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Things to Do in Oak Cliff

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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…

historical 2.8 mi away

The Sixth Floor Museum

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

quirky 4.0 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 3.4 mi away

Pecan Lodge

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

spooky 7.3 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…

historical 23.3 mi away

Southfork Ranch

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

quirky 23.5 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…

Everything Near Oak Cliff

1765 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

Cooke, Colonel William G. · 0.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past a spot where history was literally paved. Back in October of 1840, Colonel William G. Cooke and forty soldiers from the Republic of Texas Army set up camp right around here. They weren't just…
Dallas Zoo · 0.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Dallas Zoo, a place that started with just four animals way back in 1888. Imagine that! The city bought two deer and two mountain lions, and put them in pens in City Park. By the 1890s, Dallas…
Oak Cliff United Methodist Church · 0.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Dallas, and right here is the Oak Cliff United Methodist Church. This congregation kicked off way back in 1887, starting in a private home with just a few families. By 1894, thanks in large part…
Oak Cliff's Freedman's Town Endures · 0.7 mi
After emancipation in 1865, freed people including Arch Miller settled here on Cedar Creek, just south of a Black burial ground already on this ground. By 1887 the community took its name from Tenth Street. In January…
Officer J.D. Tippit · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the intersection in Dallas where, on November 22, 1963, Officer J.D. Tippit was murdered. Just 45 minutes after President Kennedy's assassination, Tippit stopped Lee Harvey Oswald. After a brief…
Tenth Street Freedman's Town · 0.7 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Right here, where you're driving, marks the edge of what was once a thriving community built by freed slaves. After the Civil War, formerly enslaved people established communities called Freedman's Towns. The one that…
Greater El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church · 0.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Greater El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church, a cornerstone of Dallas's African American community since the mid-1800s. After Emancipation, churches like this were vital centers for…
Oak Cliff Masonic Lodge · 0.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Oak Cliff Masonic Lodge, designed in 1919 by architect Herbert Miller Greene. By 1923, this building housed the largest Masonic temple in Texas, with nearly 2,000 members. The exterior has looked…
Texas Theatre · 0.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb
This is where Lee Harvey Oswald was apprehended after the assassination of President Kennedy. On November 22 1963, just hours after President Kennedy was shot, police received a tip that the man suspected of killing…
A painted sky with 118 stars · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Texas Theatre, a stunning example of an atmospheric movie palace built in 1931. Designed with a Venetian court theme, it featured a painted night sky with 118 twinkling stars! But this grand…
Texas Theatre · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker
Constructed in 1931, the Texas Theatre was designed by architect W. Scott Dunne. The "Texas," the largest suburban theater in Texas when it was built, is an "atmospheric" theater, a genre designed to enhance the fantasy…
Oak Cliff Cemetery · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Dallas, and right here is Oak Cliff Cemetery. This isn't just any graveyard; it's a piece of Dallas history, founded by a Kentucky pioneer named William Beaty. He arrived in the days of the Texas…

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Cliff Temple Baptist Church · 0.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, passing by the site of Cliff Temple Baptist Church. It all started in 1898, when twenty-six members of First Baptist Church of Oak Cliff split off to form their own congregation, wanting…
Frank Reagh · 1.2 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…
Christ Church Episcopal · 1.3 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.…
Samuel David Dealey, Jr. · 1.4 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…
Tyler Street United Methodist Church · 1.7 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…
Longhorn Ballroom · 1.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Dust off your boots and get ready to two-step through history! This is the Longhorn Ballroom, a legendary Texas music venue with a past as colorful as a rhinestone-studded cowboy shirt. Opened in 1950 as Bob Wills'…
The Von Erichs · 1.9 mi
On Cadiz Street, where the Sportatorium stood, one family built a wrestling dynasty and lived through a run of loss that's hard to take in. Fritz Von Erich was born Jack Barton Adkisson in Jewett, Texas, in nineteen…
Sportatorium · 1.9 mi · Tsha Handbook
On Cadiz Street, at what was then Industrial Boulevard, the Sportatorium stood for nearly seventy years. It opened on December 9, 1935, with a wrestling card. On May 1, 1953, fire destroyed it. Authorities suspected…
The Bridge the Flood Built · 1.9 mi
The Houston Street Viaduct, the long run of concrete arches between downtown Dallas and Oak Cliff, exists because of a flood. In late May nineteen oh eight the Trinity rose more than fifty feet and swept away or swamped…
Milk, Eggs, and Bread at the Ice Dock · 2.0 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.…
Winnetka Heights · 2.0 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…
The Most Photographed Tornado · 2.1 mi
On April second, nineteen fifty seven, at about four thirty in the afternoon, a tornado touched down in southern Dallas County and started north, while thousands of people watched. It moved up Polk Street through Oak…
Margaret McDermott and the Calatrava Arches · 2.2 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…
Trinity Presbyterian Church, USA · 2.2 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…
Union Station · 2.5 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…
Dallas Morning News · 2.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, where on October 1st, 1885, a newspaper was born: The Dallas Morning News. It started as a North Texas extension of the Galveston News, linked by telegraph to share information across the…
Trinity River · 2.6 mi
As Interstate 45 pulls away from downtown Dallas, it bridges a river that has worn at least four different names. La Salle's French party crossed it in 1687 and called it the River of Canoes. The Caddo and the coastal…
Dallas Union Station · 2.6 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Step back in time to a place where Dallas connected to the world: Dallas Union Station. Opened in 1916, Union Station was a marvel. It consolidated several smaller train stations into one grand terminal, serving…
Bilbo Jitney Line · 2.6 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…
John McClannahan Crockett · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas now, past the spot where John McClannahan Crockett, a South Carolina native, set up one of the pioneer settlement's first law offices back in 1848. He was a man of many hats: state…
Fowler, Juliette Abbey Peak · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past a place that started with a deep personal tragedy, but ended up helping hundreds. Juliette Peak Fowler lost her husband and children in the 1860s. Instead of retreating, she dedicated herself to…
Latimer, James W. · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of Dallas's first newspaper! James W. Latimer, born up in Connecticut, moved his family to Texas in 1833. By 1849, he founded the very first paper in Dallas, originally called 'The…
Miller Log Cabin · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Miller Log Cabin, built way back in 1847. This wasn't just any pioneer home; it was the very first Texas home of William B. Miller. Hewn by hand from cedar logs and pegged together,…
Stone, Barton Warren · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the final resting place of Barton Warren Stone, a man who saw both sides of the Civil War. Originally from Kentucky, Stone arrived in Dallas in 1851, making his fortune in farming and law. He even…
John W. Lane · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and just ahead is a marker for John W. Lane. This printer and Civil War veteran arrived in Dallas in 1859. He married, served his country, and then served his city as mayor. But Lane's…
John Jay Good · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of a man who wore many hats in early Dallas. John Jay Good arrived here in 1851, a lawyer from Mississippi. He married, got involved in local government, and even helped found the Odd…
Trezevant Calhoun Hawpe · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Dallas, and right here is where Trezevant Calhoun Hawpe met his end. Born in Georgia in 1820, he settled in Dallas County and was elected sheriff in 1850, serving two terms. He was a key player…
Sunset High School · 2.6 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…
A.H. Belo Corporation · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of a Texas media giant. The A.H. Belo Corporation started in 1842, launching the Galveston Daily News. It later published the Texas Almanac and, in 1885, founded the Dallas Morning…
Darnell, Nicholas Henry · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of a man who shaped Texas politics for decades: Nicholas Henry Darnell. Arriving in 1838, Darnell quickly rose to become Speaker of the House in the Republic of Texas Congress. He was a key…
Millermore · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past what was once Millermore, a house built by William Brown Miller between 1855 and 1862 on his farm east of Dallas. Miller himself moved to Texas in 1847 with his family. His twelfth child, Minera,…
Record, James K. Polk · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the area where James K. Polk Record lived and worked in Dallas. Born in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1834</say-as>, he was educated as a lawyer and became Dallas's District Attorney in…
Pierre Dusseau · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and just off to the side here is a marker for Pierre Dusseau. He arrived in this area in June of 1855, leaving his home in southern France with a passion for gardening. Pierre wasn't just…
Alexander Harwood · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is the story of Alexander Harwood, a man who shaped this county. He arrived from Tennessee way back in 1844. After losing his first wife, Isabella, he remarried Sarah Peak…
James Martin Patterson · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is where a true pioneer made his mark. James Martin Patterson arrived in 1846, a Kentucky native ready to build a new life. He and John W. Smith pooled seven hundred dollars…
Pioneer Cemetery · 2.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past what used to be four separate graveyards, now known as Pioneer Cemetery. These plots hold the remains of many of Dallas' earliest settlers and civic leaders, with graves dating back to the 1850s. Two…
Dealey Plaza - JFK Assassination · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in his motorcade through Dealey Plaza on November 22, 1963.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial · 2.7 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…
UIL 5A Football State Champions — 3 titles · 2.7 mi
South Oak Cliff High School (Dallas, TX): Most recent: 35-19 over Richmond Randle · 2025 5A Division 2 final.
Dallas, TX · 2.7 mi
The naming of Dallas is shrouded in a bit of mystery. The official historical marker suggests it was named in honor of George M. Dallas, who served as Vice President of the United States. However, this is not…
Near Homesite of Belle Boyd · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Dallas neighborhood where Belle Boyd once lived. She was a notorious Confederate spy during the Civil War, known for her charm and daring. At just seventeen, she began her espionage career after…
Starr, Myra Maybelle Shirley · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once the Scyene community, near Dallas, where the legend of Belle Starr truly began to take shape. Born Myra Maybelle Shirley in Missouri, her family moved here in 1864. This Texas farm…
John Neely Bryan, 1810-1877 and Margaret Beeman Bryan, 1825-1919 · 2.7 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…
Women's Suffrage in Dallas County · 2.7 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…
Alexander Cockrell_Sarah Horton Cockrell · 2.7 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.…
Western Heights Cemetery · 2.7 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…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: South Oak Cliff (Dallas) · 2.7 mi
South Oak Cliff (Dallas, TX) placed on the 5A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: James Crain (0.456 avg).
Dallas, TX · 2.7 mi
Dallas, situated within the Blackland Prairies of North Texas, owes its early growth to its strategic location. The area, relatively flat at 430 feet above sea level, became a central hub for distributing cotton grown…
Cherokees in Dallas · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of an early clash on the Texas frontier. In 1819, Chief Bowles led ninety Cherokee people to this area, seeking a new home. But their stay was short-lived; just two years later, they were…
Old City Park · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is where the city's story really started to flow. Long before Dallas was a metropolis, natural springs here attracted Native American tribes. In <say-as interpret-as="date"…
Brisbane, Albert · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Dallas County, near where a grand experiment in utopian living once stood. It's called La Réunion, founded in 1853 by Albert Brisbane and his French colleague Victor Considerant. Inspired by the…
Cedar Springs, TX (Dallas County) · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what is now Dallas, but way back in 1841, this was the site of a temporary fort built by troops working on the Military Road. It was abandoned quickly, but the local spring became a popular…
Dunn, James Harold · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Dallas County, and right here is the hometown of James Harold Dunn, a man who helped shape the Texas oil and gas industry. Dunn started his career with Lone Star Gas right here, becoming chief…
Ferris, Warren Angus · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Dallas County, and right here, the very streets you're on might owe their unique slant to Warren Angus Ferris. In the late 1830s and early 1840s, Ferris led daring expeditions into wild,…
Letot, Clement · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once Clement Letot's land, right here in northern Dallas County. Born in France in 1836, Letot learned the machinist's trade and even served in the Crimean War in the French navy. After…
Savardan, Augustin · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Dallas County, near the site of a grand experiment in utopian living: La Réunion. It was founded in 1855 by French socialists, and right here was Dr. Augustin Savardan, a physician trained in…
Turtle Creek (Dallas County) · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is Turtle Creek, the most notable waterway in the city's history. It's fed by springs, so it's never run dry, providing Dallas with both useful and pleasurable services for…
Overton Cemetery · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the Overton Cemetery, a final resting place for some of Dallas County's earliest settlers. The Overton family arrived in 1844, long before Dallas was a major city. They built one of the…
First Juries to Sit Women in Dallas County · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, where women fought for the right to serve on juries. Although they could vote in 1920, Texas didn't allow women on juries until 1954. After years of campaigning and newspapers highlighting…
Site of First Ferry and Bridge · 2.7 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…
Old Red Courthouse · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Dallas's very first courthouse, a log cabin built way back in 1846. Over the years, Dallas saw several courthouses rise and fall, including a granite structure that burned twice! The…
Eagle Ford, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Eagle Ford was on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad and Loop 12 six miles west of downtown Dallas in western Dallas County. It was on the original land grants of H. Burnham and the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and…
Hamilton Park, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Hamilton Park, originally an all-Black subdivision, is ten miles north of Main and Akard streets in downtown Dallas, Dallas County. Two developments usually are associated with the founding of Hamilton Park. In 1950…
Hord's Ridge, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Hord's Ridge was on Cedar Creek at the site of what is now Oak Cliff, three miles south of Dallas in central Dallas County. As early as 1837 William S. Beaty claimed land a half mile east of what was to be the…
Lisbon, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Lisbon was at the intersection of Lancaster and Ann Arbor roads six miles south of downtown Dallas in south central Dallas County. The first settlers in the area were J. Cole, James Ray, and F. Sadler, who received land…
Little Egypt, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Little Egypt was located just north of Northwest Highway between Ferndale and Audelia, near White Rock Lake within the city limits of Dallas in Dallas County. The community began after the Civil War , when the site was…
Oak Cliff, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Oak Cliff was on the south bank of the Trinity River two miles south of downtown Dallas in central Dallas County. The original township was in the area bordered by Colorado Boulevard, Cliff Street, and Thirteenth…
Browder Springs · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Browder Springs, named for the family who first owned this land. These springs were vital to the early days of Dallas, serving as the main water source before the city got its own pumping system.…
General Richard M. Gano House · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the former home of General Richard M. Gano, a man who wore many hats. Built in 1854 as a dogtrot cabin by J. T. Morehead near Grapevine, this house saw significant changes. In 1857, it was purchased…
Higginbotham - Bailey Building · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Higginbotham-Bailey Building in Dallas, a testament to the city's early 20th-century commercial boom. Designed by the renowned architectural firm Lang and Witchell, this structure was built to…
Western Heights Church of Christ · 2.7 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…
Barlough, Delilah Bennett Manning · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once Peters Colony territory, a land that drew settlers like Delilah Bennett Manning Barlough. She arrived in Texas sometime between 1843 and 1848, part of a wave of pioneers navigating…
Clothing Manufacture · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Right here in Texas, the clothing industry has been a true rags-to-riches story. Back at the start of the Civil War, only five places were making clothes. By World War II, Texas factories were churning out uniforms for…
Hancock, Curtis · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is a place connected to Curtis Hancock, the very first chairman of the Texas State Highway Commission. He was appointed in 1917, tasked with building the roads you're…
Oak Cliff College For Young Ladies · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Oak Cliff, now a part of Dallas, where in 1892, a grand Victorian hotel was reborn as the Oak Cliff College for Young Ladies. Its founder, M. Thomas Edgerton, aimed to cultivate 'accomplishment,'…
Thirty-First Texas Cavalry · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through North Texas, an area that sent many of its sons to fight in the Civil War. Right here, in what was then Dallas County, the Thirty-first Texas Cavalry formed in early 1862. Led by Colonel Trezevant…
Breckinridge, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Breckinridge is north of the intersection of Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway and Greenville Avenue, a mile east of Restland Cemetery and ten miles northeast of downtown Dallas in Dallas County. In the 1840s families from…
Cement, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Cement or Cement City was on the Missouri Pacific Railroad three miles west of downtown Dallas, south of the Trinity River and north of the old site of La Réunion in central Dallas County. The community was named for…
First Texas Cavalry, Arizona Brigade · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
The First Texas Cavalry, Arizona Brigade, at one time called the Thirty-first Texas Cavalry, had a long and unusual history. The idea for the regiment came from "ex-officio" Confederate governor of Arizona John Robert…
Kleberg, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Kleberg, now in Dallas, was on U.S. Highway 175, the Southern Pacific Railroad, and Hickory Creek thirteen miles southeast of Dallas in southeastern Dallas County. The site was a 4,428-acre tract granted on October 23,…
Letot, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Letot was at the intersection of Lombardy Lane and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, seven miles northwest of Dallas in northwestern Dallas County. It was on the original land grant of J. S. Shelby. Clement Letot…
Trinity Mills, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Trinity Mills was on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River two miles northwest of Carrollton in northwest Dallas County. The site was on the land grant of A. W. Perry. It was settled in 1853 and originally named Witt's Mill…
Vickery, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Vickery was at a site that is now on Loop 12, State Highway 75, Interstate Highway 635, the Southern Pacific line, and the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line in north central Dallas County. It was located on the original…
Central National Road · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Dallas County right now, near where the Republic of Texas planned its Central National Road back in 1844. Imagine a major highway, stretching from the Trinity River here, all the way to the Red…
Goodnight, James P. · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once Lisbon, near Dallas. Right here, James P. Goodnight arrived from Kentucky in 1854, buying land and becoming a leader in this community. He served as a constable, county assessor, and…
Levee-Improvement Districts · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through parts of Texas where controlling water has always been a challenge. Back in the early 1900s, the state authorized the creation of Levee-Improvement Districts. These districts were given the power…
Mountain Creek Lake · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving southwest of Dallas, and right here is Mountain Creek Lake. It wasn't built for recreation, but to cool a power plant! Construction on the dam started back in 1929 and wrapped up in 1937. Over the years,…
Newton Creek · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through south Dallas County, near Lancaster, along a waterway called Newton Creek. <break time="400ms"/> This creek likely got its name from William F. Newton, who first patented the land where it begins.…
Pleasant Grove, TX (Dallas County) · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through Pleasant Grove, a neighborhood that started as a simple cottonwood grove in the 1840s. Early settlers like W.B. Elam and Richard Bruton established roots here. By the 1880s, a teacher named Don…
Shady Grove, TX (Dallas County) · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what used to be Shady Grove, a community named by early settlers for the oak trees that dotted this part of Dallas County. It was a small place, with just twenty residents in 1933 and fifty by…
Texas Farm Bureau · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
You're driving through what was once Dallas County, a place that saw the birth of a powerful voice for Texas farmers. Back in 1920, inspired by a national movement, local farmers organized the Dallas County Farm Bureau.…
Merrifield Cemetery · 2.7 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…
Florence Hill, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Florence Hill was a mile north of the shores of Joe Pool Lake, six miles south of Grand Prairie, and six miles west of Duncanville in southwestern Dallas County. The site of Florence Hill was in the original land grant…
Fruitdale, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Fruitdale was three miles south of downtown Dallas in central Dallas County. The site is now bounded by Fordham Road on the north, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas tracks to the east, Ledbetter Drive on the south, and…
Honey Springs, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Honey Springs was near the junction of the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas railroad tracks and Honey Springs Branch, five miles south of Dallas in south central Dallas County. Dugald McFarland was the original holder of the…
Reinhardt, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Reinhardt was on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad in what became the Casa Linda area of Dallas in eastern Dallas County. Dixon Branch ran through Reinhardt and entered White Rock Lake a mile to the west. The…
Rylie, TX · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Rylie was at the intersection of Loop 635 and Rylie Road, between State highways 175 and 20 on the Southern Pacific line eleven miles southeast of Dallas in southeastern Dallas County. It was on the original land grant…
Wheatland, TX (Dallas County) · 2.7 mi · Tsha Handbook
Wheatland was ten miles southwest of Dallas and three miles east of Duncanville at the junction of several wagon roads, where Wheatland and Hampton roads intersected in the 1980s, in southern Dallas County. The area of…
Texas School Book Depository Building · 2.8 mi · Historical Marker
This site was originally owned by John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas. During the 1880s French native Maxime Guillot operated a wagon shop here. In 1894 the land was purchased by Phil L. Mitchell, president and…
Texas School Book Depository · 2.8 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…
The Sixth Floor Museum · 2.8 mi · Things to Do
Where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from. The JFK assassination site at Dealey Plaza.
Dealey Plaza · 2.8 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…
July Seventh, 2016 · 2.8 mi
On the night of July seventh, two thousand sixteen, a peaceful protest march in downtown Dallas was ending. It had been called over the police killings of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.…
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum · 2.8 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.…
Dallas · 2.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of a Texas giant: Dallas. It all started in 1841, when John Neely Bryan settled right here on the Trinity River. He envisioned a town, and Dallas was born. It wasn't riverboats,…
Dallas County Criminal Courts Bldg. · 2.8 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…
West End Historic District (Dallas) · 2.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Believe it or not, this bustling entertainment district was once the heart of Dallas' industrial might. Back in the late 1800s, the West End was a hub for factories, warehouses, and businesses serving the railroad.…
South Oak Cliff - 2025 Texas 5A Division II state football champion · 2.8 mi · Sports News
You're near South Oak Cliff High School in Dallas. Last December, they took down Richmond Randle thirty-five to nineteen to win the Texas 5A Division II state football championship. They wear that crown until this…
Log Cabin Pioneers · 2.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, a city that started with log cabins! In the early 1840s, Peters Colony settlers like John Neely Bryan arrived, bringing their tradition of building with sturdy local timber. These early…
Dallas County · 2.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas County, named for George Mifflin Dallas, the 11th Vice President of the United States. He championed Texas annexation. The town of Dallas was a post office in 1843, and the county itself…
Dallas County Records Building · 2.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Dallas County Records Building, a cornerstone of local government. Designed by Lang and Witchell in the Gothic Revival style, it was built between 1927 and 1928 to hold county records, offices,…
Robert Johnson at 508 Park · 2.9 mi
On a summer weekend in nineteen thirty seven, Robert Johnson came to downtown Dallas to make records, and they turned out to be his last. The place was five oh eight Park Avenue, near Park and Young streets, a building…
Neiman-Marcus · 2.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of a Texas legend: Neiman-Marcus! On September 10, 1907, Herbert Marcus, Sr., his sister Carrie, and her husband A. L. Neiman opened their first store right here. They built it on…
The Calatrava Arch Named for H. L. Hunt's Daughter · 2.9 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…
Adolphus Hotel · 2.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine stepping back in time to an era of opulence and ambition; the Adolphus Hotel embodies that spirit. Commissioned by Adolphus Busch of Anheuser-Busch fame, the Adolphus opened its doors in 1912. It quickly became…
Magnolia (Mobil) Building · 2.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Magnolia Building, once the tallest structure in Dallas for nearly 20 years! Erected in 1921 and 22, it housed the offices of Magnolia Petroleum, later Mobil Oil. In 1934, a giant neon 'flying…
Financed by the Busch brewing family · 2.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Adolphus Hotel in Dallas, a grand Beaux Arts building that once dominated the city's skyline. Dallas businessmen convinced Adolphus Busch, of the famous brewing family, to fund its construction…
Adolphus Hotel · 2.9 mi · Historical Marker
Dallas businessmen persuaded Adlophus Busch (1839-1913), co-founder of the Anheuser Busch Brewing Co., to build the original section of this Hotel in 1911-1912. Constructed on the site of the 1880s Dallas City Hall and…
The Lady in White at the Adolphus · 2.9 mi
The Adolphus Hotel on Commerce Street has a ghost story, and Dallas's own tourism bureau tells it. The true part first. Beer baron Adolphus Busch bought Dallas's old City Hall in nineteen ten, tore it down, and built a…
Higginbotham - Pearlstone Building · 2.9 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…
Neiman - Marcus · 3.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, a city forever changed by retail innovation. In 1907, Herbert Marcus Sr., Carrie Marcus Neiman, and A. L. Neiman opened the doors to their namesake store. After a fire in 1913 destroyed…
One Hundred Thirty Nine Hours Below Freezing · 3.0 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…
Wilson Building (Dallas) · 3.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Hold on, check out that building! Modeled after a Parisian palace, the Wilson Building offers a glimpse into Dallas's architectural aspirations in the early 1900s. Completed in 1904, the 8-story Wilson Building was…
Central National Road · 3.0 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…
Busch-Kirby Building · 3.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Busch-Kirby Building in Dallas. Built in 1913 by Adolphus Busch as a retail and office space for his nearby hotel, it was designed by St. Louis and Dallas architects. Notice the strong vertical…
Dallas Scottish Rite Temple · 3.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Dallas Scottish Rite Temple, a Dallas landmark that's been showcasing fine materials and craftsmanship for over a century. Prominent Mason Samuel P. Cochran headed the committee that dreamed up…
La Reunion · 3.0 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…
South Boulevard-Park Row Historic District · 3.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, passing through a neighborhood that tells the story of the city's growth and prosperity. <break time="400ms"/> This area, South Boulevard-Park Row, really took off after the Jewish Temple…
The Downtown Under Downtown · 3.0 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…
Dallas City Hall, 1914-1978 · 3.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Dallas's grand old City Hall, a building that stood from 1914 to 1978. By 1910, the city's population had ballooned past 90,000, and the old hall just wasn't cutting it. They sold that…
The South Dallas Pastor Who Kept the Peace · 3.1 mi
U.S. Highway One Seventy Five and State Highway Three Ten, from Interstate Forty Five out to Loop Twelve, make up the S. M. Wright Freeway. Sylvester Marilyn Wright grew up in the Bon Ton community, one of the poorest…
Hilton Hotel · 3.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the very first Hilton Hotel, built right here in Dallas in 1925. Conrad Hilton wanted to offer comfortable rooms and great service at a fair price, and this fourteen-story building was his first…
Hoblitzelle, Karl St. John · 3.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of a Dallas entertainment giant, Karl Hoblitzelle. He started out helping produce the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, then brought vaudeville and early motion pictures to Texas. By 1905,…
Majestic Theatre · 3.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Majestic Theatre in Dallas, a grand dame of entertainment! Built in 1921 by theatre pioneer Karl St. John Hoblitzelle, this five-story Beaux Arts building was designed by Chicago architect John…
Site of Sanger Brothers Department Store · 3.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas right now, but this area once pulsed with the energy of Sanger Brothers, a retail giant born from humble beginnings. It all started in 1857 when Isaac Sanger, a German immigrant, opened a…
Good Samaritan Hospital (Leland Avenue) · 3.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the former site of the Good Samaritan Hospital, a place that offered care to everyone in Dallas, regardless of their ability to pay. Opened around 1920 by Martha Schultze, a German immigrant and…
Giving Community Thanks · 3.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Giving Community Thanks. Thanksgiving is man's response to his Creator. In an unusual early expression of interfaith good will, a rabbi, a priest, and Protestant ministers started in 1907 at Bush…
Lisbon Cemetery · 3.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through what used to be the pioneer town of Lisbon, just south of Dallas. <break time="400ms"/> In 1870, two men, Samuel Sloan and E.A. Gracey, donated land right here for a church and cemetery. <break…
First Baptist Church · 3.2 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the First Baptist Church in Dallas, a congregation that got its start way back in 1868. Imagine this: their very first building, put up in 1871, was just a simple one-room frame structure. How did…
The Barrow Family Filling Station · 3.3 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…
Junction of the Texas & Pacific and Houston & Texas Central Railroads · 3.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, the very heart of North Texas, and right here is where it all came together. In the early 1870s, Dallas leaders pulled off a masterful bit of political maneuvering, using state law and a…
Cumberland Hill School · 3.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of the old Cumberland Hill School, a real melting pot of cultures and trades. Built in 1888, it was one of the first brick schools in the Dallas system. Back then, students arrived in fancy…
First United Methodist Church of Dallas · 3.3 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is the site of the First United Methodist Church. Methodism came to this area way back in 1846 with traveling circuit riders. It took until 1850 for the first organized…
Stevie Ray Vaughan, Oak Cliff Kid · 3.4 mi
Stevie Ray Vaughan was a Dallas kid before he was an Austin legend. He was born at Methodist Hospital in Dallas on October third, nineteen fifty four, and grew up in Oak Cliff, in his family's house on Glenfield Avenue,…
Pecan Lodge · 3.4 mi · Things to Do
Dallas' best BBQ. The beef rib alone is worth the drive.
The Road Booster Behind the Perry Award · 3.4 mi
Interstate Three Forty Five is an unsigned interstate spur in downtown Dallas that connects Interstate Forty Five to U.S. Seventy Five, between Interstate Thirty and the Woodall Rodgers Freeway. Since two thousand seven…
Belo, A.H. · 3.4 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the former home of Alfred Horatio Belo, a man who built an empire on ink and newsprint. After serving as a Confederate colonel, Belo came to Texas and took over the Galveston News. He expanded his…
Deep Ellum - Birthplace of Texas Blues · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
Dallas neighborhood east of downtown where Blind Lemon Jefferson, Leadbelly, and Robert Johnson performed, establishing the foundation of Texas blues.
William Sidney Pittman · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, passing a true pioneer of Texas architecture. William Sidney Pittman, born in Alabama in 1875, was the first practicing African American architect in Texas. After studying at Drexel and…
Original Site of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Dallas · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is the original site of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company. In 1902, this spot produced the city's very first bottle of Coke, using a hand-operated machine. They sold 37 cases…
Leadbelly in Deep Ellum · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas's Deep Ellum, a legendary neighborhood for Texas music. This area, known for its vibrant African American community in the early 1900s, became a hub for musicians. It's here that Huddie…
Gano, Richard M. · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site where Brigadier General Richard M. Gano once commanded the Texas Frontier Cavalry. Born in Kentucky but a Texan since childhood, Gano was a true Renaissance man of the mid-19th century. He…
The Baptist Standard · 3.5 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…
Dallas Symphony · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Dallas, and right here, you're passing the site of a musical legacy. The story of the Dallas Symphony starts way back in 1899 with the Dallas Symphony Club. Though that first attempt didn't last,…
Oakland Cemetery · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Oakland Cemetery, a garden cemetery vision started in 1891 by O.S. Riggen. Though Riggen died before his dream took root, others incorporated the Oakland Cemetery Company that same year. Landscape…
John C. McCoy · 3.6 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of a true Texas legal pioneer: John C. McCoy. He arrived in Texas in 1845, already an established lawyer from Kentucky. Here, he became the very first attorney to practice law in Dallas and…
Lincoln High School, Dallas (Chris Bosh) · 3.7 mi
Lincoln High School in Dallas is where Chris Bosh led a 40-0 national championship season while also excelling in the classroom as a National Honor Society member. He starred at Georgia Tech, won two NBA titles with the…
St. Paul United Methodist Church · 3.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is the site of a church with an incredible story of resilience. In 1873, freed people in Freedman's Town organized their first African American Methodist Episcopal Church,…
Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Lincoln (Dallas) · 3.7 mi
Lincoln (Dallas, TX) placed on the 4A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Jose Luis Esqueda (0.523 avg); Alonzo Washington (0.487 avg, 1 HR); Mar'Karion Reagor (0.478 avg).
Pike Park · 3.7 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…
Interstate Forwarding Company Warehouse · 3.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past Dallas's first bonded customs warehouse, built way back in 1913. Imagine that! Dallas was an official U.S. Port of Entry then, and this reinforced concrete building, with its cool Chicago…
Wilson Block · 3.7 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Wilson Block neighborhood in Dallas, a place that really shows off the city's early 20th-century lifestyle. The story here starts in 1898 when businessman Frederick P. Wilson and his wife…
Marshall, Tueria Dell · 3.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, passing the site of Lincoln High School, the city's second school for African American students. For 16 years, from 1939 to 1955, Tueria Dell Marshall led this school as principal. Beyond…
Continental Gin Company Showroom Building · 3.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past a building that represents a big chunk of Dallas' early industrial might. This was the showroom for the Munger Improved Cotton Machine & Manufacturing Co., founded right here in 1885 by Robert…
Sons of Hermann in Dallas · 3.8 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is the site of a community that helped preserve German culture and traditions in Texas. The Sons of Hermann, originally formed in New York in 1840, helped German immigrants…
Big Tex · 3.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Howdy, folks! You're near the stomping grounds of Big Tex, the State Fair of Texas's larger-than-life cowboy. He's more than just a statue; he's a symbol of Texas itself. Big Tex first appeared in 1952, quickly becoming…
Hall of Negro Life · 3.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here stood the Hall of Negro Life, built for the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. It was a dedicated space to showcase the achievements of African Americans, featuring nearly…
African American Museum (Dallas) · 3.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb
You're passing a place that holds a powerful story of art and heritage: the African American Museum of Dallas. Founded in 1974, the museum became independent in 1979. But it wasn't until a 1985 city bond election, and…
Music Hall at Fair Park · 3.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Prepare to be transported! This spot marks the historic Music Hall at Fair Park, a Dallas landmark that has been captivating audiences since 1925. Originally known as the Fair Park Auditorium, this stunning theater was…
Baylor University Medical Center · 3.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and right here is where a medical revolution began. Back in 1900, Dallas lacked enough doctors for its growing population. That's when Dr. Charles Rosser, despite opposition, founded the…
WRR Radio · 3.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the birthplace of WRR Radio, a pioneering station born from tragedy. A fire in 1912 highlighted the need for faster communication, leading Dallas to install a 50-watt radio station at fire department…
East Dallas · 3.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through East Dallas, a community that started its own journey before the Civil War. Pioneers like Jefferson Peak, W.H. Gaston, and Swiss immigrants Henry Boll and Jacob Nussbaumer settled here. But it was…
Maple Avenue · 3.9 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…
Baylor College of Dentistry · 3.9 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the site of Baylor College of Dentistry, a school that started as a bold idea in the early 1900s. Two dentists from St. Louis envisioned a dental college right here in Dallas, even though many locals…
State Fair of Texas · 4.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're cruising through Dallas, and right here, you're passing the grounds of the legendary State Fair of Texas! Founded way back in 1886 by Captain W. H. Gaston and other Dallas leaders, it's grown into the biggest…
Big Tex at the State Fair · 4.0 mi · Things to Do
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…
Texas Centennial Exposition · 4.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, past the site of the Texas Centennial Exposition. In 1935, local businessmen rallied to bring this massive celebration of Texas Independence to Dallas. Designed by over 100 architects and…
Texas Star · 4.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Get ready for a Texas-sized view! The Texas Star Ferris wheel has been a towering landmark at the State Fair of Texas since 1985. It's more than just a ride; it's a symbol of the fair itself. Standing at 216 feet, the…
Santa Fe Terminal Complex · 4.0 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Imagine Dallas without a way to ship goods in and out. That's why this spot, the Santa Fe Terminal Complex, matters. It was the regional headquarters for the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, a huge deal for…
Thomas L. Bradford · 4.0 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…
Texas Women in the Civil War, A tribute to · 4.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving through Dallas, and it's worth remembering the women who held down the home front during the Civil War. While 90,000 Texans fought for the Confederacy, their wives and families kept farms and businesses…
Continental D.A.R. House · 4.0 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Continental D.A.R. House, a building with a past tied to Texas's Centennial Exposition. Funded by the Continental Oil Company, it was designed as a southern colonial mansion, complete with a…
Cotton Bowl (stadium) · 4.1 mi · Scraped Hmdb
Feel the roar of the crowd at the Cotton Bowl, a legendary stadium that has hosted countless historic games and events since 1930. Originally named Fair Park Stadium, it's been the site of the State Fair of Texas since…
Big Tex - State Fair of Texas · 4.1 mi · Historical Marker
Big Tex was not born a cowboy. He started life in 1949 as a 49-foot Santa Claus erected by the Kerens, Texas Chamber of Commerce to attract Christmas shoppers. The campaign was a flop. The State Fair of Texas bought the…
Steel Dust, Fabulous Quarter Horse · 4.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Dallas area where Steel Dust, a champion Quarter Horse, made his name. Brought to Texas in 1844, this Virginia-bred stallion was so fast, jockeys used molasses to stay on his back! He won big…
Texanic in proportion, centennial in character · 4.1 mi · Historical Marker
You're driving past the Hall of State in Dallas, a building designed to be 'Texanic in proportion and centennial in character.' Completed during the 1930s Depression, it served as the focal point for the 1936 Texas…
Hall of State · 4.1 mi · Historical Marker
Construction of this building, which served as the focal point of the 1936 Texas Centennial Central Exposition, was approved by the State Legislature to be "Texanic in proportion and centennial in character." Designed…
Klan Day at the State Fair · 4.1 mi
In October nineteen twenty three, the State Fair of Texas at Fair Park held a Klan Day. Dallas Klan Number Sixty Six reportedly had about thirteen thousand members then, and its members called it the largest chapter in…

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