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
The planned cemetery visit of 2/20/21 to the McKinney Cemetery is cancelled due to this week’s inclement weather (freezing precipitation and colder than normal temperatures). We hope to be able to plan another date sometime in the future.
Phillip, Isaac and Alexander Sanger are credited with having founded Sanger Brothers. They were three sons of Elias and Barbetta Sanger of Bavaria. Elias was a wine merchant and farmer. Isaac had been born in Bavaria (Germany) in 1836 and emigrated to the United States when he was 16, in 1852. Lehman (born in 1838)…
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Dallas County Pioneer Association – Founded 1875, Reorganized 1979. P O Box 12496, Dallas TX 75225972-260-9334 dcpa1875@gmail.com From the PresidentGreetings All,Here’s hoping all of you are well and safe. I was without electricity a lot of hours over several days. I hope your luck was better. As you probably saw in an earlier email, we…
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Wheatland United Methodist Church is known as the “oldest Methodist church west of the Trinity River”. Originally it resided in the small farming community of Wheatland. The Wheatland community may have been older than Dallas or Hord’s Ridge (the original name of Oak Cliff). With settlers arriving just before Texas entered the American Union, Wheatland…
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February 20 McKinney Family Cemetery at 11:00 AM 10425 Rylie Crest Dr., Dallas- The purpose is to clean the cemetery to the degree allowed by the number of people who arrive between 11:00 and 11:30. An additional benefit is for members to see the cemetery, and visit with other history lovers. A portion of the…
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At this point, there will be no meeting in March due to the ongoing Coronavirus outbreak. Watch this section for later developments and check the website calendar.
Saturday, January 16, 2021, a group of folks met at the Beeman Memorial Cemetery. The weather was a bit cool but otherwise perfect. The location was easy to find and at various times, there were between one and two dozen people in attendance. Several of them were Beeman descendants and were able to tell us…
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Information on Cory Cemetery in Balch Springs by Marilyn Kosanke In the 1930s and 1940s (and probably decades before) there was periodically terrible flooding of Hickory Creek all up and down the section of the creek that runs north and south on the west of LBJ. Quoting “Marie Hughes – History” from Balch Springs News, July…
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