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In the 1870s the first significant groups of Mexicans came to Dallas as railroad lines were constructed. Additional Mexicans settled Dallas as a result of the Mexican Revolution, which began in 1910. [ 2] According to the 1920 U.S. Census, 3,378 Mexicans lived in Dallas. [ 3] In the early 20th century, wealthier Mexicans lived in Little Mexico ...
In 2002, it was reported that Mexican-Americans make up 80% of Hispanic and Latinos in Dallas–Fort Worth. There are many Mexican restaurants, taco stands, grocery stores, etc. in Dallas-Fort Worth and there is also a pizza chain called Pizza Patron that is very popular amongst Mexican-Americans. There are concentrations of Mexican Americans ...
No. 2: Fan-favorite Tex-Mex restaurant from Houston makes first appearance in Dallas-Fort Worth. El Tiempo is a Mexican cantina known for its fajitas, tortillas, and margaritas — now open at ...
When Spanish rule in Texas ended, Mexicans in Texas numbered 5,000. In 1850 over 14,000 Texas residents had Mexican origin. [1] [2] In 1911 an extremely bloody decade-long civil war broke out in Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of refugees fled to Texas, raising the Hispanic population from 72,000 in 1900 to 250,000 in 1920.
Mexico’s new president in 1920 made a whirlwind visit to Fort Worth and Dallas, greeted by thousands of revelers. But assassins from Los Angeles had also secretly come to town.
After the Mexican–American War. In January 1849, U.S. Army General William Jenkins Worth, a veteran of the Mexican–American War, proposed building ten forts to mark and protect the west Texas frontier, situated from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River. Worth died on 7 May 1849 from cholera. [4]
Little Mexico. Little Mexico is a former neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, encompassing the area bordered by Maple Avenue, McKinney Avenue and the MKT (Missouri, Kansas, Texas) Railroad. [1] Formerly a Polish Jewish neighborhood, [2] it was settled by a wave of Mexican immigrants beginning about 1910, and was recognized as Little Mexico by 1919 ...
The Chaf-In Restaurant, 200 W. Henderson St. in Cleburne, might be the Fort Worth area’s oldest restaurant. It opened in 1920 at a nearby location. In Dallas, the first El Fenix restaurant ...