DeSoto, Texas

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1639 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the nearest 200 are listed here — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

• Desoto, TX · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving through Desoto, a community that started life as "the Store." It all began in the 1840s when families like the Parks, Cheshier, Ramsey, and Johnson settled here. In 1848, T.J. Johnson built the first…

• The DeSoto Eagles Football Factory · 0.6 mi

  You can't talk about modern DeSoto without talking about football. The DeSoto High School Eagles are more than just a team; they are a community institution and a nationally recognized brand. The program is legendary…

• The All-America City · 0.6 mi

  In 2006, DeSoto earned a title that speaks volumes about its character: 'All-America City.' This prestigious award from the National Civic League isn't about size or wealth; it's about a community's ability to work…

• DeSoto, TX · 0.6 mi

  DeSoto's Town Center stands as a landmark of the city, a conversion of an abandoned strip center into a unique central business district. It houses city hall, the public library, a civic center, recreation center, and a…

• DeSoto, TX · 0.7 mi

  In the early days, DeSoto was a small settlement that faced a population decline, with only 97 people recorded in 1930. However, after World War II, the area began to grow rapidly. The town's incorporation in 1949 was a…

• The Evening the Sky Came Apart · 0.7 mi

  On the evening of April 25, 1994, the worst tornado in this corner of Dallas County tore across the prairie just south of Dallas. The monster that did the killing was rated F4, the second-strongest category, and it cut…

• The Farmhouse That Outlived the Farm · 0.9 mi

  Tucked into a modern subdivision at 1325 Greenbrook Drive sits the Historic Nance Farm, the oldest thing in DeSoto by a wide margin. In 1851 Otway Bird Nance brought his wife and ten children down from Illinois and…

• How a Windmill Pulled Water Out of the Prairie · 0.9 mi

  Among the outbuildings at the old Nance Farm stood a windmill, and that machine is the reason a homestead could survive out here at all. The Blackland prairie had no creek running through every farmyard, so settlers…

• Nance Farm · 1.0 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the Nance Farm, a place that's been in the same family for a century. Otway Nance arrived here from Kentucky in 1851, settling on land acquired through Peters Colony. He started building this…

• UIL 6A Football State Champions — 4 titles · 1.3 mi

  Desoto High School (DeSoto, TX): Most recent: 55-27 over Sheldon King · 2025 6A Division 2 final.

• DeSoto High School (Von Miller) · 1.5 mi

  DeSoto High School in DeSoto, Texas (600 Eagle Drive) is where Von Miller was district defensive MVP before becoming a pass-rushing legend. He won the Butkus Award at Texas A&M as the nation's top linebacker, then was…

• The Football Factory and Its Super Bowl MVP · 1.5 mi

  DeSoto is a town that produces football players the way other places produce wheat. The headliner is Von Miller, who grew up here and starred as a two-sport athlete at DeSoto High School, leading the Eagles to a…

• DeSoto - 2025 Texas 6A Division II state football champion · 1.5 mi · Sports News

  DeSoto defeated Sheldon C.E. King 55-27 for the 2025 Texas 6A Division II state football championship.

• The Daniel Cemetery · 2.7 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the Daniel Cemetery, the final resting place for some of southwest Dallas County's earliest settlers. The first person buried here, back in 1853, was Fannie P. Daniel, daughter-in-law of Rev. Ellison…

• Shedeur Sanders at Trinity Christian School · 3.1 mi · Sports Alumni

  Shedeur Sanders, Trinity Christian School - Cedar Hill (TAPPS; now 'Trinity Leadership'), class of 2021. Career (4 yrs): 12,627 pass yds, 166 TD. Junior 2019: 3,477 yds, 47 TD, team 13-1. Three consecutive TAPPS…

• The City Built by Firefighters · 3.5 mi

  You are in a city with one of the more unusual founding stories in Texas. Glenn Heights was not a railroad town or an oil boomtown. It exists because of a Dallas firefighter. N. L. 'Moe' Craddock joined the Dallas Fire…

• David W. Carter High School, Dallas (Michael Crabtree) · 3.5 mi

  David W. Carter High School in Dallas (1819 West Wheatland Road) is where Michael Crabtree played quarterback before converting to receiver. At Texas Tech he set NCAA freshman records with 1,962 receiving yards and 22…

• Glenn Heights, TX · 3.5 mi

  Glenn Heights may be a relatively young city, but it has its own quiet story to tell. Drive down I-35E today and you see the result of that late 20th-century growth spurt — homes and businesses that sprang up as people…

• The Interstate That Built a Suburb · 3.5 mi

  The road you may be driving on right now, Interstate 35E, is more than just a highway. It's the piece of engineering that made Glenn Heights possible. Before the interstate system, this stretch of blackland sixteen…

• A City in Two Counties · 3.5 mi

  Here's a local quirk you might not notice at first: Glenn Heights is a city divided. As you drive through town, you might cross an invisible line that has real-world consequences. The city straddles the border of two…

• Wheatland Methodist Church · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Wheatland Methodist Church, a testament to faith in early Texas. Founded way back in 1847, just a year after Texas became a state, this church holds a significant title: it's the oldest Methodist…

• Wheatland Cemetery · 3.5 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving by Wheatland Cemetery, a burial ground serving this Dallas area since the mid-1800s. Originally called Branson-Brotherton Cemetery, it holds pioneers, community leaders, and veterans dating back to the…

• Born to Beat an Annexation · 3.6 mi

  Glenn Heights owes its existence to a turf fight. In the late 1960s a Dallas firefighter named N.L. "Moe" Craddock opened a thirty-acre mobile home park on this prairie south of the city. The nearby town of DeSoto was…

• One City, Two Counties, Two School Districts · 3.6 mi

  Glenn Heights sits astride an invisible line that predates the town: the border between Dallas County to the north and Ellis County to the south. That single boundary quietly splits the city in two. Children on the…

• From 257 to a Boomtown · 3.6 mi

  Few Texas towns have grown as steeply from as small a start as Glenn Heights. It counted just 257 residents in 1970, the year after it incorporated. Then the numbers climbed like a staircase: 1,033 by 1980, 4,564 by…

• Penn Springs · 4.1 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Penn Springs, a place that's been a vital stop for travelers for centuries. Long before settlers arrived, Native Americans used these springs. Then, wagon trains and cattle drives on the Shawnee…

• Ovilla, TX · 4.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

  Ovilla, on upper Red Oak Creek in northern Ellis County, is the oldest town in the county. It began in 1844 as a fortified settlement and grew as settlers arrived in the area to attend brush arbor meetings of the Shiloh…

• Music Room · 4.2 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of a small but important piece of Duncanville history! Back in 1887, folks were pretty resistant to building a new school, worried about taxes. But six citizens stepped up and funded it…

• Little Bethel Cemetery · 4.2 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Little Bethel Cemetery, where the story starts with tragedy. Two small children were buried here back in 1856, opening this resting place. The oldest stone you'd see today belongs to Etna Barker,…

• Duncanville HS - Bryson Kennedy Transfer Ruling · 4.3 mi · Sports News

  Bryson Kennedy, Class of 2029 quarterback (6'3", ~20 D1 offers including Miami, Auburn, Florida, Arizona State, Arkansas, Missouri, Toledo), transferred from Little Rock Central HS (AR) to Duncanville HS (TX). UIL ruled…

• Trees Cemetery · 4.3 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Duncanville, passing the site of the Trees Cemetery. Crawford Trees arrived in Texas in 1845, eventually buying over 5,000 acres. He and his wife Anna donated land for a school and church, but…

• Penn Springs, TX · 4.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

  Penn Springs was at the intersection of Penn Springs Road and Danieldale Road, at a site that is now in the center of Duncanville, eleven miles southwest of Dallas in southwest Dallas County. It was on the original land…

• Daniel, Ruby Kathryn · 4.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving near Duncanville, the birthplace of Dr. Ruby Kathryn Daniel. She wasn't just any eye surgeon; she was a global medical pioneer. After training at the Mayo Clinic and teaching in China and India, Dr.…

• First United Methodist Church of Duncanville · 4.4 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the First United Methodist Church of Duncanville. This congregation actually started as a Union Sunday School way back in 1882, just after the railroad arrived. For a few years, classes met at Union…

• Duncanville, TX · 4.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving through Duncanville, a Dallas suburb. This town owes its start to a railroad switch, named for a line foreman. In 1880, the Chicago, Texas and Mexican Central Railway reached this area and built Duncan…

• The Night Duncanville's Radar Chased a UFO · 4.5 mi

  On a rise on the west side of town once sat Duncanville Air Force Station, a Cold War radar post that watched the skies over North Texas from 1953 until 1964. Its strangest moment came before dawn on July 17, 1957. An…

• The City of Champions and Its 134-Game Streak · 4.5 mi

  Duncanville calls itself the City of Champions, and the claim is earned on a basketball court. The Pantherettes, the girls program at Duncanville High School, have piled up a dozen Texas state titles starting in 1976,…

• Duncanville, TX · 4.5 mi

  Duncanville's history began in 1845 when Crawford Trees purchased land south of Camp Dallas. The city's pivotal moment came in 1880 when the Chicago, Texas, and Mexican Central Railway built Duncan Switch, named for a…

• From Duncan Switch to Duncanville · 4.5 mi

  You're rolling through a town that started as a spot on a railroad. In 1845 Crawford Trees came down from Illinois and bought up several thousand acres of Peters Colony land south of the Dallas army camp, and for…

• Named for the Doctor, Not the Explorer · 4.5 mi

  Everybody assumes DeSoto is named for the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto, but the better-supported story is much more local. The crossroads settlement here goes back to about 1847, when Curtis Parks built one of…

• The Golf Ball on the Hill · 4.5 mi

  The hill above Armstrong Park once wore one of the great structural-engineering ideas of the 20th century. When Duncanville Air Force Station upgraded its gear in the 1950s, the Air Force capped its radar dish with a…

• First Christian Church of Duncanville · 4.5 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of the First Christian Church of Duncanville. Its story begins in the early 1890s, with informal services led by a preacher from nearby Lancaster. By 1893, Robert N. Daniel and his wife…

• Duncanville · 4.6 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Duncanville, a town that owes its very existence to the railroad. Back in the 1880s, this area was just farmland, but then the Chicago, Texas & Mexican Central Railroad decided to build a line…

• The Open-Air Mall Built Like a Texas Town Square · 4.7 mi

  The shopping district at 305 West FM 1382 quietly marked a turning point for this corner of Dallas County. Developers broke ground in 2006 and opened it in March 2008 as Uptown Village at Cedar Hill, a roughly…

• John C. Pelt · 4.7 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Duncanville, heading past the site of John C. Pelt's family home, built in 1927. Pelt was a carpenter and builder who constructed many local buildings, including what's now Central Elementary…

• The Sound of a Train That Wasn't · 4.8 mi

  On April 25, 1994, the sound of a freight train filled the air, but there was no train. It was the sound of an F4 tornado, half a mile wide, bearing down on Lancaster. The storm ripped through the heart of the city,…

• The Storm That Erased Cedar Hill · 4.8 mi

  Downtown Cedar Hill sits on a limestone escarpment, and on April 29, 1856, that high ground took one of the worst blows in early Texas history. Two funnels formed, one to the north and one to the south, merged into a…

• Anatomy of a Tornado · 4.8 mi

  The tornado that struck Lancaster in 1994 wasn't just a storm; it was a catastrophic weather engine, powered by a specific set of atmospheric conditions. That April day, warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico collided…

• A Visit from the Hamilton Gang · 4.8 mi

  In the 1930s, Texas was captivated and terrorized by the crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde. The famous pair never robbed Cedar Hill — but one of their crowd did, twice. On October 8, 1932, nineteen-year-old Raymond…

• Engineering a Lake on the Prairie · 4.8 mi

  The massive body of water on Cedar Hill's western edge, Joe Pool Lake, isn't a natural feature. It's a major work of civil engineering, decades in the making. Congress authorized it back in October 1965 — as Lakeview…

• Cedar Hill, TX · 4.8 mi

  Cedar Hill, Texas, has a rich history that dates back to the mid-1800s. Founded around 1846 by settlers from the Peters Colony, it became the largest settlement in the area at the time. The town's early history was…

• Lancaster, TX · 4.8 mi

  Founded in 1852 as a frontier post, Lancaster is one of Dallas County's earliest settlements. The town was surveyed and staked off by 'A' Bledsoe, who modeled it after his Kentucky hometown. During the Civil War,…

• A Canyon of Blooming Dogwoods · 4.8 mi

  Just a few miles from the busy highways, Cedar Hill holds a surprising secret: the westernmost grove of flowering dogwood trees in the United States. Tucked away in a limestone canyon is the Dogwood Canyon Audubon…

• The Electric Express to Dallas · 4.8 mi

  Before interstate highways, a different kind of speed connected Lancaster to the outside world. From 1912 to 1948, the Texas Electric Railway ran right through town. This was the Interurban, a fast, clean, electric…

• The Concrete Crossroads That Built a City · 5.0 mi

  As you navigate the ramps and flyovers around Duncanville, you're driving on the single most important structure in the city's modern history. Duncanville began as a railroad stop, Duncan Switch, named for a line…

• Duncanville, TX · 5.0 mi

  During World War II, the Army Air Corps established a landing field for flight training on property near the present-day intersection of Main St and Wheatland Road in Duncanville. This development marked a significant…

• Pie by the Slice on Camp Wisdom Road · 5.0 mi

  If you want the unglamorous, lived-in side of Duncanville, pull in at Judy's Cafe at 126 West Camp Wisdom Road. It opened in 1996 and has run as a plain home-cooking diner ever since, the kind of place where breakfast…

• Cedar Hill · 5.0 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Cedar Hill, one of Dallas County's oldest settlements. Back in the late 1840s, settlers were drawn to this high prairie hill, establishing a community. The early economy thrived by supporting…

• The Blessing and Curse of Blackland Soil · 5.2 mi

  The very ground you're driving on is Ovilla's greatest STEM story. This is the Texas Blackland Prairie, and its soil is a marvel of geology and a challenge for engineering. The soil contains a high concentration of…

• Longhorn Country and the NFL Pipeline · 5.2 mi

  Friday nights are serious business in Cedar Hill, and the trophy case backs it up. The Cedar Hill High School Longhorns built one of the more feared football programs in Texas during the 2000s and 2010s, going a perfect…

• The Old Brick Church · 5.2 mi

  As you pass through Ovilla, know that you're in the oldest town in Ellis County - a fortified settlement thrown up on Red Oak Creek back in 1844. And the building that made it a town was a church. Shiloh Cumberland…

• Lavender, Margaret Hall Little · 5.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving through Dallas County, near Lancaster, where Margaret Hall Little Lavender arrived in 1845. She and her husband William traveled all the way from Illinois as part of the Peters Colony's push to settle…

• Lancaster, TX (Dallas County) · 5.2 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving south of Dallas, and right here in Lancaster, you're passing through a town that played a small but significant role in the Civil War. In 1861, a volunteer company from Lancaster was raised and joined the…

• Ovilla · 5.2 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Ovilla, one of Ellis County's oldest settlements. It started way back in 1844 as a fortified community right here on upper Red Oak Creek. Imagine that! Just a few years later, in 1847, the Shiloh…

• Oak Cliff Presbyterian Church · 5.2 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Dallas, and right here is the Oak Cliff Presbyterian Church. It all started way back in 1890 with just seventeen members. Over the years, this church grew, moving from Ninth and Patton streets to…

• First Baptist Church of Ovilla · 5.2 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Ovilla, Texas, where the First Baptist Church has been a cornerstone of the community for over a century. Organized back in September of 1903, these early Baptists first gathered in a wooden…

• Ovilla Cemetery · 5.3 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Ovilla Cemetery, established in 1886 by the Ovilla Methodist Episcopal Church, South. The earliest marked grave here is Rebecca Summers McElroy, who died in 1884. The cemetery remains a chronicle of…

• How You Build a Quarter-Mile-Tall Tower on the Highest Hill in North Texas · 5.4 mi

  Look toward that cluster of impossibly tall towers and you're looking at one of the densest forests of broadcast masts in America, and it's no accident it lives here. Cedar Hill sits on one of the highest points between…

• The Morning the Tower Came Down · 5.4 mi

  On the morning of October 12, 1996, one of the giant guyed masts on the Cedar Hill ridge came down in seconds, and three workers fell with it. A crew was raising a new antenna up the 1,462-foot tower using a gin pole, a…

• The Cedar Brakes on the Hill · 5.4 mi

  The high ground you're climbing onto is exactly what gave this town its name. Cedar Hill grew up in the 1840s as one of the settlements carved out of the Peters Colony, the big empire-resario land grant that pulled…

• A Gospel Powerhouse Set Up Shop on the Hill · 5.4 mi

  Cedar Hill's musical heavyweight works in gospel, not country or blues. Fred Hammond, the singer, bassist, songwriter, and producer widely credited with shaping the sound of modern urban contemporary gospel, built his…

• Who Walks Penn Farm After Dark · 5.4 mi

  By day the old Penn Farm is a peaceful row of weathered barns and farm gear. After the gates close, it has a reputation. Visitors and staff have traded stories for years of figures glimpsed among the buildings,…

• The Sharp Manor and Its Long Haunted Legend · 5.4 mi

  On the dark land off Houston School Road, a brick manor and its barns spent decades as one of the oldest haunted attractions in Texas, the seasonal Reindeer Manor, opened in 1974 and run for some 49 seasons before the…

• The Tornado That Erased a Town · 5.5 mi

  In the spring of 1856, an early version of Cedar Hill was simply wiped off the map. Two storms collided just south of the village and merged into one enormous tornado that, as a newspaper of the day put it, swept the…

• The Highway That Built a City · 5.5 mi

  Interstate 35E runs right past Oak Leaf, and it's fair to say the highway is why anybody wanted to live out here in the first place. The Eisenhower interstate system was designed to link big cities for commerce and…

• The Town That Built Itself · 5.5 mi

  You're driving through a city that its own neighbors talked into existence. Northern Ellis County, west of Interstate 35E and US 77, about ten miles north of Waxahachie - this was subdivision country on big wooded lots,…

• Named for the Cedars on the Hills · 5.5 mi

  The name Cedar Hill is about as honest as a town name gets. Settlers from Kentucky and Alabama arrived around 1846 and found these rolling hills blanketed in native cedar, the dark evergreen eastern red cedar that still…

• Roberts House, Dr. R. A. · 5.5 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the Roberts House, a beautiful example of late Victorian architecture right here in Cedar Hill. This home was built in 1884 by Dr. R. A. Roberts, a North Carolina native who settled in this area back…

• First Christian Church of Lancaster · 5.5 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of the First Christian Church of Lancaster. Back on July 5, 1846, Roderick Rawlins and thirteen other settlers started this Christian fellowship. For years, they met in homes and a simple…

• First United Methodist Church of Cedar Hill · 5.6 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the First United Methodist Church of Cedar Hill. This congregation got its start way back in 1854. Their very first church building didn't last long – a tornado ripped it apart in 1856! They rebuilt…

• UIL 6A Football State Champions — 2 titles · 5.7 mi

  Duncanville High School (Duncanville, TX): Most recent: 49-33 over Galena Park North Shore · 2023 6A Division 1 final.

• Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Duncanville (Duncanville) · 5.7 mi

  Duncanville (Duncanville, TX) placed on the 6A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Braylon Hubbard (6 HR); Raul Lomas (5 HR).

• The Fire That Reset Main Street · 5.7 mi

  Barely two years after Duncanville got its name, it nearly lost its downtown. In 1884 a fire tore through the young railroad town and destroyed most of its commercial buildings, the wooden storefronts that had grown up…

• Cedar Hill, TX (Floyd County) · 5.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving through Floyd County, and right here is the spot where Cedar Hill began. Settlers started arriving in the late 1880s, drawn to the wheat farming in this part of the Caprock escarpment. A schoolhouse…

• Antenna Alley · 5.9 mi

  Drive toward Cedar Hill and you will see them from twenty miles off: a forest of enormous broadcast towers crowning the ridge, the densest cluster of radio and television antennas in north Texas. It began in the…

• Why the Towers Are Here · 5.9 mi

  The giant towers cluster on Cedar Hill for one elegant reason: it is high ground. The town sits atop the White Rock Escarpment, a ridge of hard Austin Chalk limestone that is the most pronounced rise in the whole…

• Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church · 5.9 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Ovilla, and right here is the site of the first organized church in Ellis County. The Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian Church congregation was chartered way back on July 25, 1847, two full years…

• Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Lancaster (Lancaster) · 6.0 mi

  Lancaster (Lancaster, TX) placed on the 6A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Jason Gardner (0.449 avg).

• Pleasant Run · 6.0 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of Pleasant Run, a town that nearly was! Madison Miller arrived here in 1846, a Texas Ranger who’d served with Bigfoot Wallace. He settled down, married, and opened a store in his home,…

• Shiloh Cemetery · 6.0 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Shiloh Cemetery, the final resting place for many of Ovilla's earliest settlers. Burials here began with Peters Colony pioneers who founded this town way back in 1844. Look closely, and you might…

• Confederate Arms Factory · 6.1 mi · Historical Marker

  As you drive through Lancaster, look for the site of the Confederate Arms Factory. In 1862, Joseph Sherrard, William Killem, Pleasant Taylor, and John Crockett established this factory. Their mission? To manufacture…

• The Last Marine of The Pacific Lived Right Here · 6.2 mi

  For decades a genuine World War II legend lived quietly in Lancaster. Romus Valton Burgin, known as R.V., was a Marine mortarman in K Company, 3rd Battalion, 5th Marines, who fought through some of the Pacific's worst,…

• Dallas County's Last Intact Old Town Square · 6.2 mi

  The Historic Town Square at the center of Lancaster is the whole reason this town is worth a stop. Centered near 100 Main Street, it's a true old-fashioned courthouse-style square, a ring of brick storefronts facing a…

• The Lancaster Gun Factory That Sold Out the Back Door · 6.2 mi

  During the Civil War, this quiet farm town briefly became one of Texas's most talked-about weapons makers, and one of its most notorious. Tucker, Sherrard and Company set up a pistol factory in Lancaster to manufacture…

• The Kentucky Judge Who Named a Town After Home · 6.2 mi

  You're rolling into one of the oldest towns in Dallas County, and it carries a Kentucky name on purpose. In 1847 a man named Abram Bledsoe bought half of the Roderick Rawlins survey out here on the prairie, and about…

• From Lancaster High to Back-to-Back Duke Titles · 6.2 mi

  One of the players on arguably the most famous college basketball team ever assembled came straight out of Lancaster High. Thomas Hill starred here on the hardwood before committing to Duke in 1989, walking into a…

• Head House · 6.2 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Lancaster, and right here, you're passing the former site of the Head House. Lucy Frances Jeffries, a Virginia transplant, discovered her true talent wasn't just raising four kids, but cooking!…

• The Lancaster Receiver Who Made the NFL · 6.2 mi

  Lancaster High has sent a steady stream of athletes out into the wider sports world, and one who reached the very top was Demarcus Ayers. Born in Lancaster in 1994, Ayers grew into a standout wide receiver and return…

• A Library Named for the Town's Veterans · 6.2 mi

  When Lancaster built out its modern Community Park on the south side of town, it didn't give the new library a generic name, it dedicated the building to the people who served. The Lancaster Veterans Memorial Library is…

• Lancaster · 6.2 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Lancaster, a town with roots going back to 1844. It was officially established around 1852 by A. Bledsoe and his son-in-law, Roderick Rawlins, who patterned it after Bledsoe's grandfather's…

• First United Methodist Church of Lancaster · 6.2 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the First United Methodist Church of Lancaster, a North Texas institution tracing its roots back to 1868. Organized by Reverend Andrew Davis, services first gathered in the Masonic Hall. Imagine, if…

• The Night an F4 Tore the Heart Out of Downtown · 6.3 mi

  On the night of April 25, 1994, a violent F4 tornado dropped onto Lancaster and chewed a path roughly six miles long and as much as 800 yards wide straight through the city. It came after dark, around 9:30 in the…

• Red Oak's Gold Medal Factory · 6.3 mi

  There must be something in the water at Red Oak High School. This single school has produced not one, but two Olympic gold medalists, a truly incredible feat for any community. The first was Louise Ritter. In 1988, the…

• The Ghost of the Super Collider · 6.3 mi

  As you drive south of Red Oak, you’re passing the ghost of one of the most ambitious science projects ever attempted. This area was the site of the Superconducting Super Collider, or SSC. Beginning in the late 1980s,…

• The Town That Moved a Mile · 6.3 mi

  The center of Red Oak isn't where the town started. James E. Patton and his family settled the original site in 1844 down on Red Oak Creek — folks called it Possum Trot before the name changed along with the county in…

• Rebuilding 1898 Brick by Brick After the Storm · 6.3 mi

  Restoring a wrecked 19th-century square isn't just sentiment, it's an engineering problem. After the 1994 tornado leveled most of Lancaster's town square, the city committed to bringing the historic brick storefronts…

• The Tap Line That Saved a Cotton Town · 6.3 mi

  When the main railroads bypassed Lancaster, the town refused to be cut off from the cotton economy that was its lifeblood. In 1888 a depot opened on the Dallas and Waco Railway, which folded into the Missouri, Kansas…

• First Baptist Church of Lancaster · 6.3 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the First Baptist Church of Lancaster, but its story starts way back in the 1840s, with Baptists meeting in private homes. Then, on September 29th, 1867, fourteen people officially organized the…

• Lancaster Education · 6.3 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Lancaster, a town with a rich educational history! Back in 1846, the very first log schoolhouse was built just a mile north of here. As the community grew, so did its schools. By 1868, African…

• First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster · 6.3 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of the First Presbyterian Church of Lancaster. It all started in 1856, when Reverend Michael Dickson and just nine members gathered in a small workshop to get this church off the ground. For…

• Rawlins Homestead · 6.4 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of the Rawlins Homestead, a place that served travelers on the road between Waxahachie and Dallas. Roderick A. Rawlins, a Confederate officer, started building this house in 1855. After the…

• Rocky Crest School · 6.6 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of Rocky Crest School, a vital part of African American education in Lancaster. In 1868, this school opened its doors in a former Confederate pistol factory, serving 73 students. Imagine…

• Strain, W. A., Home · 6.6 mi · Historical Marker

  You're cruising past the former home of W.A. Strain, built in the late 1890s. Strain's pioneer family had already owned this land since 1846. Noted Dallas architect James E. Flanders designed this frame Victorian house,…

• When Hollywood Shot Bonnie and Clyde Right Here · 6.7 mi

  In 1967, the crew of Arthur Penn's landmark film Bonnie and Clyde rolled into little Red Oak, about 15 miles south of Dallas on Highway 35E, and put the town on screen. A spruced-up red-brick bank near the corner of…

• The Town That Used to Be Called Possum Trot · 6.7 mi

  The fast-growing suburb you're passing on Interstate 35 about 18 miles south of Dallas almost ended up with a much stranger name. Settlement started here in 1844, when James E. Patton and his family put down roots along…

• The Patton Family and the Church That Came Before the County · 6.7 mi

  If you want the family whose name runs under this whole community, it's the Pattons. Colonel James E. Patton brought his family to Red Oak Creek in the mid-1840s and, on July 25, 1847, organized the Shiloh congregation…

• The Town That Snubbed the Railroad, Then Chased It · 6.7 mi

  Red Oak grew up as a blackland farm town. Before the Civil War the main crop was wheat, but by the 1860s cotton took over the deep prairie soil, and a general store opened around 1852 by Hugh Caldwell and I.P. Jeffers…

• The Red Oak Boy Who Still Holds a 1938 Big-League Record · 6.7 mi

  Red Oak's first taste of national fame came on a baseball diamond. Michael Franklin Higgins, nicknamed Pinky as a baby, was born here on May 27, 1909, and grew into a hard-hitting major-league third baseman. Over…

• The Red Oak Cowboy Who Fell Off a Bridge for The Wild Bunch · 6.7 mi

  Hollywood owes a quiet debt to Red Oak. Bill Hart, born here on July 28, 1934, became one of the great Western stuntmen of the studio era. He broke in on John Wayne's epic The Alamo in 1960 and went on to perform or…

• Cotton Fields to Cloud Servers Off Ovilla Road · 6.7 mi

  The blackland prairie that once grew cotton on the edge of Red Oak is now being asked to grow something invisible: the cloud. Google quietly bought roughly 165 acres near East Ovilla Road and North Central Boulevard…

• John Shelby Wisdom · 6.7 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the land where a man known as 'Daddy' Wisdom found his purpose later in life. John Shelby Wisdom moved to Texas as a teen, working ranches and cattle drives. In 1880, he married Hattie Wright, and…

• Buddy Groom Field and the Lefty Who Earned It · 6.7 mi

  The baseball diamond at Red Oak High School carries the name of one of the school's own, and it is well earned. Wedsel Gary Groom Jr., known to everyone as Buddy, graduated from Red Oak High in 1983, where he was an…

• The Indie Songwriter Who Grew Up in Red Oak · 6.7 mi

  Before she became a fixture of the North Texas indie scene, singer-songwriter Sarah Jaffe was a kid in Red Oak. Born in Lufkin, she moved around the state as a child until her family settled in Red Oak, just south of…

• St. Paul Freewill Baptist Church · 6.7 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of St. Paul Freewill Baptist Church in Lancaster. This congregation was organized in 1870, born from the community of freed Black Texans after the Civil War. Land was acquired in the late…

• Edgewood Cemetery · 6.8 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Edgewood Cemetery in Lancaster, the final resting place for some of Dallas County's earliest settlers. Look for the grave of Lizzie Richardson, a pioneer child who died way back in the summer of 1845…

• A Century on Penn Farm · 6.9 mi

  On the cedar-covered hills above what is now Joe Pool Lake, a man named John Penn settled in 1854 and started a farm. What makes it remarkable is how long it lasted: the Penn family worked that same land for more than a…

• Red Oak High's Father-Daughter Olympic Medalists · 7.3 mi

  Red Oak High School can claim something almost no school anywhere can: a father and daughter who both stood on an Olympic medal stand in the same event. Michelle Carter grew up in Red Oak and graduated from Red Oak High…

• South Oak Cliff - 2025 Texas 5A Division II state football champion · 7.4 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…

• Everard Sharrock, Jr. Farmstead · 7.4 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Dallas, heading into the heart of the Peters Colony, the first big settlement push in North Texas. Look to your right - you're passing the Everard Sharrock, Jr. Farmstead. Sharrock built his home…

• Red Oak Cemetery · 7.4 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the Red Oak Cemetery, which started life as the Kemble family burial ground. Abraham Kemble bought this land around 1860, and he and his wife Mary were laid to rest here in 1867. Decades later, in…

• UIL 5A Football State Champions — 3 titles · 7.5 mi

  South Oak Cliff High School (Dallas, TX): Most recent: 35-19 over Richmond Randle · 2025 5A Division 2 final.

• Where Three Texases Meet · 7.5 mi

  Tucked into the same escarpment that holds the towers is a quiet natural wonder: Dogwood Canyon. This Audubon nature center sits at a genuine biological crossroads, a spot where the plants and animals of East, West, and…

• Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: South Oak Cliff (Dallas) · 7.5 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).

• Five Mile Cemetery · 7.5 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…

• Higgins, Michael Francis · 7.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving through Ellis County, not far from Red Oak, the birthplace of Michael Francis "Pinky" Higgins. He earned his nickname in a unique way, reportedly showing up for a sandlot football game wearing his clothes…

• Red Oak, TX · 7.7 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving south of Dallas on I-35, and right here is Red Oak. This town started out as Possum Trot back in 1844, named for the critters that were everywhere. The first settlers were the James E. Patton family, who…

• Lisbon Cemetery · 7.7 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…

• Winniford House · 7.8 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the Winniford House, a testament to Texas grit and good design. William Johnson Winniford arrived here in 1853, chasing opportunity after a stint in the California Gold Rush. He homesteaded 320…

• Fry - Butcher House · 7.9 mi · Historical Marker

  You're cruising past the Fry-Butcher House, a beautiful example of Queen Anne architecture right here in Red Oak. Sam and Sarah Jane Fry bought this land in 1882 and, with the help of carpenter Lewis Butcher, built this…

• Parsons' Cavalry C.S.A. · 8.0 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Waxahachie, and right here we remember Parsons' Cavalry. Back in September of <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1861</say-as>, men from this county and beyond gathered near Rockett's Spring…

• The Hord Log Cabin · 8.0 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…

• Ellis County · 8.0 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Ellis County, Texas. It was carved out of Navarro County back on December 20th, 1849. The county was officially organized just a few months later, on August 5th, 1850. It’s named for Richard…

• How Limestone Becomes Cement · 8.7 mi

  Inside the cement plants at Midlothian, ordinary limestone gets cooked into a brand new material through some serious chemistry. Limestone is mostly calcium carbonate. Heat it past about 900 degrees Celsius in a giant…

• The Gift and Curse of the Blackland Soil · 9.0 mi

  The reason Pecan Hill exists is a story of soil science. You're on the Blackland Prairie, famous for dark, clay-rich ground weathered out of Taylor Marl. This soil is packed with a mineral called montmorillonite, and it…

• Pecan Hill, TX · 9.0 mi

  Pecan Hill is a community in Texas.

• Dallas Baptist University (Decatur Baptist College) · 9.0 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…

• Hutchins Memorial cemetery · 9.1 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the Hutchins Cemetery, a resting place for generations of Dallas County pioneers. The earliest marked burial here is Alonzo B. Clark, who died in 1875 at just eleven years old. This historic…

• First Methodist Church of Hutchins · 9.3 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving through Hutchins, a town born from the railroad back in 1872. Just a few years later, in December of 1887, the First Methodist Church got its start. Reverend John M. Davis and eight members gathered in a…

• First Baptist Church of Hutchins · 9.3 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of the First Baptist Church of Hutchins. The town itself sprang up around 1860, but these Baptists were meeting privately, or with other congregations, for decades. Finally, in September of…

• Hutchins, William J. · 9.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving through what is now Dallas County, heading towards Hutchins, a town named for a man who shaped Texas railroads. William J. Hutchins arrived in Texas in 1844, quickly becoming a major player in Houston's…

• Lowrey - Hurst Homestead · 9.4 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of the Lowrey-Hurst homestead, a farm that stayed in the same family for over a hundred years. James Barker Lowrey bought this land back in 1881. His son Nicholas took over farming and…

• Hutchins, TX · 9.4 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving south of Dallas, and right here is Hutchins. Settlement began around 1860, with folks crossing the Trinity River at Dowd's Ferry to trade. The town really got its name and a boost when the Houston and…

• The Science of the Inland Port · 9.5 mi

  You might just see trucks and warehouses, but Hutchins is home to a marvel of transportation engineering: the Union Pacific Dallas Intermodal Terminal. Think of it as a land-based seaport. This is where technology and…

• Hutchins, TX · 9.5 mi

  Hutchins, Texas, has a rich history dating back to 1860 when it was first inhabited by families as a trading place for immigrants along the west bank of the Trinity River. The town was named after William J. Hutchins, a…

• Bells' Chapel Cemetery · 9.5 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Bells' Chapel Cemetery, founded way back in 1875. Local landowners John and Elizabeth Gibbons gave the land for the church and cemetery on December 27th of that year, deeding it to the Methodist…

• The Island City · 9.6 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…

• The Infrastructure Island · 9.6 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 · 9.6 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,…

• Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: Life Waxahachie (Waxahachie) · 9.6 mi

  Life Waxahachie (Waxahachie, TX) placed on the 4A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Shaun Malone (0.583 avg).

• Overton Cemetery · 9.8 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…

• Dallas Zoo · 10.1 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…

• Winnetka Heights · 10.1 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…

• Texas Theatre · 10.2 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 · 10.2 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 · 10.2 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…

• Sunset High School · 10.2 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…

• Christ Church Episcopal · 10.2 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.…

• Merrifield Cemetery · 10.2 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…

• Tyler Street United Methodist Church · 10.2 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…

• Hawkins Spring, Site of Old · 10.3 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of Hawkins Spring, a vital water source for the very first settlers in this area. In May of 1848, William Alden Hawkins and his large family arrived here from Indiana. In a remarkable 28-day…

• Cooke, Colonel William G. · 10.3 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…

• Cliff Temple Baptist Church · 10.3 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…

• Oak Cliff Masonic Lodge · 10.3 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…

• The Inland Port: An Engineering Marvel · 10.4 mi

  As you drive along I-45, you're passing one of the most important pieces of modern infrastructure in Texas: the Union Pacific Dallas Intermodal Terminal, a hundred-million-dollar, 360-acre yard that opened in September…

• The Fire of 1928 · 10.4 mi

  Imagine the heart of Wilmer, a small downtown filled with wooden buildings, bustling with the business of a cotton community. Now imagine it all going up in smoke. That's what happened on the Fourth of July, 1929. Fire…

• Graves Cemetery · 10.4 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Graves Cemetery, a final resting place for many of Ellis County's earliest pioneers. The first marked grave here belongs to Joseph Hinkle, who was laid to rest in 1859. His son-in-law, Robert Russell…

• Wilmer, TX · 10.4 mi

  Unlike some Texas towns that boast of famous gunslingers, politicians, or musicians, Wilmer has a different kind of story. It's a place defined not by famous individuals, but by collective work. Its history was written…

• Officer J.D. Tippit · 10.5 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…

• Texas HS Baseball Leaders 2026: South Grand Prairie (Grand Prairie) · 10.6 mi

  South Grand Prairie (Grand Prairie, TX) placed on the 6A Texas high school baseball stat leaderboards for the 2026 season: Daylon Brooks (0.417 avg, 3 HR); Julian Guerrero (0.411 avg, 1 HR).

• Wilmer, TX · 10.6 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving through Wilmer, Texas, a town that started as a railroad stop called Prairie Valley. It got its current name in 1884, named after a Houston and Texas Central conductor who passed through. By 1890, it was…

• Oak Cliff United Methodist Church · 10.6 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…

• Henry Critz Hines Founded Joppa · 10.7 mi

  Joppa — sometimes spelled Joppee — sits on the banks of the Trinity River in southeast Dallas, near the Great Trinity Forest. After the Civil War, plantation owner William B. Miller hired a formerly enslaved man named…

• Joppee Community · 10.7 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the site of Joppee, a community with deep roots right here in Dallas. After emancipation, freed slaves from the nearby Miller Plantation established Joppee in 1872, creating one of Texas's few…

• Chris Kyle Memorial Highway · 10.7 mi · Historical Marker

  This stretch of US Highway 287 through Midlothian is named for Chief Petty Officer Chris Kyle. Kyle was a rodeo kid from a small Texas town who joined the Navy and became the deadliest sniper in American military…

• Antioch Life Park Cemetery · 10.7 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…

• Rockett Christian Church · 10.7 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the Rockett Christian Church, a building that's seen over a century of Texas history. The congregation started gathering way back in 1853, but they formally organized in 1894. This beautiful…

• Oak Cliff's Freedman's Town Endures · 10.8 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…

• Tenth Street Freedman's Town · 10.8 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…

• Dawdy's Ferry · 10.8 mi

  You're cruising past where Alanson Dawdy once ran the southernmost crossing on the Trinity River. Back in 1854, this Illinois native got the license to operate his ferry right here. For twenty years it was the only…

• The Prairie Navy at Hensley Field · 10.9 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 · 10.9 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…

• Greater El Bethel Missionary Baptist Church · 10.9 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…

• Wilson Cemetery · 10.9 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past the Wilson Cemetery, a small pioneer burial ground that dates back to 1872. It began when Charles N. Wilson buried his wife, Ophelia, and their infant daughter here, both lost to complications during…

• Great Southwest Industrial District · 11.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving between Dallas and Fort Worth right now, and you're passing through a massive industrial park that changed the face of this region. It's the Great Southwest Industrial District, established in 1956 by…

• Grand Prairie, TX · 11.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving through Grand Prairie, a city born from a broken wagon. Back in 1863, a man named A.M. Dechman was traveling from Jacksonville to Fort Belknap with army supplies when his wagon gave out. He traded the…

• Mount Zion Cemetery · 11.0 mi · Historical Marker

  You're driving past Mount Zion Cemetery, a place that holds the stories of early Ellis County. Back in the 1850s, an Indian who loved this hill met his end right here, killed by his own wild prairie horse. It was a…

• Oak Cliff Cemetery · 11.0 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…

• Frank Reagh · 11.0 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…

• Trinity Presbyterian Church, USA · 11.0 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…

• Joe Pool Lake · 11.0 mi · Tsha Handbook

  You're driving near Grand Prairie, and right here is Joe Pool Lake. Officially known as the Joe Pool Reservoir, this massive body of water was named for Joe Pool, a congressman from Oak Cliff. The dam creating this lake…