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Restland Memorial Park is a cemetery located in an unincorporated area of Dallas County, Texas between Dallas and Richardson.It is the final resting place of many prominent figures in the Dallas area, including politicians and professional athletes, and Charles Elmer Doolin, inventor of the Frito corn chip and founder of the predecessor of Frito-Lay Inc.
Prior to the mid-1920s, Greenville Avenue was known as the "Richardson Road" or the "Richardson Pike". Before the construction of the North Central Expressway in 1950, Greenville Avenue was the main route to Richardson, Plano, McKinney and north to the states of Oklahoma and Arkansas. It is for this reason that the "Lower Greenville" area was ...
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Chandler David Owens Sr. (October 2, 1931 – March 6, 2011) was an American minister and Holiness Pentecostal denomination leader of the Church of God in Christ (COGIC), for which he served as the Presiding Bishop from 1995 to 2000, after the death of Bishop Louis Henry Ford.
Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) of Dallas, Texas was the longest continuously operating Protestant congregation founded within the city limits of Dallas, at the time of its permanent closure in 2021. It had been founded in a room above a blacksmith shop in 1863, as the Civil War raged.
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3]
That small church grew and became known as Refuge Temple, and, later, the Greater Refuge Temple. At its height, the enterprise on 133rd Street contained a grocery store, a bookstore, record and radio shop, and daycare. In the basement of the church was a complete printing office where many tracts, booklets, and songs were published.
Christ Church's first rector was the Rev’d Charles Gillett of Connecticut. He led the congregation to build its first church building in 1845. [7] James P. deWolfe was the church's rector from 1934 to 1940. [7] He rebuilt the edifice and started many programs before going on to be the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island. [9]