By Brian Gunn When W. H. Flippen arrived in Dallas in 1880, he quickly became a force in the city’s financial landscape. Teaming up with French emigrant J. Bertrand Adoue and Galveston banker Joseph Lobit, Flippen cofounded the banking firm of Flippen, Adoue & Lobit. The trio commissioned noted architect James Flanders to design their…
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The Freedmens town movement involved the establishment of communities by formerly enslaved African Americans in the United States, mostly organized after the Civil War and emancipation in 1865. These settlements, often called “Freedmen’s Towns” or “Freedom Colonies,” were created as areas where African Americans could live independently, build self-sufficient communities, and exercise newfound independence away…
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The cemetery at this location was originally chartered in 1874 as Trinity Cemetery by William H. Gaston, W. H. Thomas and A. W. Morton. Gaston and Thomas were local banking partners and Morton was a Dallas undertaker. At the time, it was a little out of town just off the old McKinney Road. The area…
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