Kathy Ann Reid, Dallas County Pioneer Association McKinney Family Cemetery 10425 Rylie Crest Dr., Dallas, Texas McKinney Family Cemetery – 10425 Rylie Crest Dr., Dallas, Texas. Cemetery on north side Rylie Crest Dr. at Cade Parkway. North of 10500 US Hwy 175. Not shown on Mapsco as a cemetery; is located in Mapsco 69C. …
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(One of our vintage articles on Old City Park) by Michael V. Hazel Old City Park: The Historical Village of Dallas occupies the site of Dallas’ oldest park, established in 1876 as City Park. That year, James J. Eakins gave the city ten acres of land south of downtown Dallas, which were set aside as…
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James Paris Goodnight (1831-1885) and Mary Ann Hill (1835-1900) were married on September 21, 1854 in Franklin, Kentucky. Early in October, 1854, they left for Dallas County, Texas. They traveled for six weeks with a party of several families, using horse-drawn wagons to transport themselves and their household goods. They settled on a farm in…
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[From Proud Heritage, Volume III by DCPA. This 352 page hardcover book is now available online.] Dallas Morning News columnist Steve Blow wrote early in the twenty-first century that Bryan’s Smokehouse was the oldest restaurant still operating in Dallas. With a wink to Vincents (1898) this might be true. Elias and Sadie Bryan moved to…
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Sensation and Lurid Scene at Pleasant Valley Church YesterdayJune 27, 1897 An unusually large congregation assembled at the Pleasant Valley church, five miles east of Garland, yesterday forenoon to hear the Rev. Dr. Patterson, of Ellis county, preach. The preliminary service of song and prayer was over, and the preacher was about to announce his…
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William C. McKamy, Sr. came to Texas around 1851 from Tennessee. On October 21, 1845, he had previously married the former Rachel Loyd Wester and they brought with them their three children: William Albert, John Lewis and a daughter Keziah (a family name) McKamy. Once settled here, they had three more children: Mary E., William…
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The oldest hospital in Dallas, Parkland Hospital Hospital was opened May 19, 1894, in a group of wooden buildings on a seventeen-acre wooded tract called Parkland, at Oak Lawn and Maple Avenues. An ambulance was purchased, but it was two years before a horse was acquired to pull it. A meningitis epidemic in 1911 underscored…
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Discover These 8 African American History Sites in Dallas Texas Historical Commission listing of Eight Sites for African American History in Dallas
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