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Musicians will be amp-ed that these phonies are off the streets. More than 3,000 fake Gibson guitars that could have been sold for a combined $18.7 million were seized by federal authorities after ...
State Highway 289, known for most of its length as Preston Road, is a north–south Texas state highway. It begins at the intersection of Preston Road and Loop 12 /Northwest Highway in Dallas . The Preston Road designation comes from the fact that the highway generally follows the course of an older road known as the Preston Trail , which ran ...
The major north–south and east-west Texas railroad routes intersected in Dallas in 1873, thus ensuring its future as a commercial center. [ 1 ] The arrival of the trains also meant soaring populations — the population of Dallas shot from 3,000 in early 1872 to more than 7,000 in September of the same year.
John Neely Bryan, looking for a good trading post to serve Native Americans and settlers, first surveyed the Dallas area in 1839. [1] Bryan, who shared Sam Houston's insight into the wisdom of Native American customs, must have realized that Caddo trails he came across intersected at one of the few natural fords for hundreds of kilometers along the wide Trinity floodplain.
Far North Dallas is the section of the city of Dallas, Texas which extends north of the Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway. [2] Far North Dallas is part of North Dallas but is viewed as a distinct area. The area has strong social, economic, and political ties to two inner suburbs of Dallas, Richardson and Addison .
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It borders downtown to the south at Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Bryan Place to the east at US 75 (Central Expressway), and LoMac to the north and west. The State Thomas neighborhood contains the largest collection of Victorian-era homes remaining in Dallas [1] including the Jacob and Eliza Spake House listed on the National Register of Historic ...
The East Dallas family farm land of 600 plus acres was purchased in 1937. The abstract completed at that time traces the ownership of the land back to the original owner who had been rewarded the land for his service in the Battle Of San Jacinto by the then governor of Texas in 1836. The history of the land as it went from owner to owner was ...