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Travel Info does anyone know ? could u please tell me the answers to these ?s below???? =( *origin of the name dallas-the city of TX(where it came from)? *first people who lived there(like indians)? *how it was founded? *what attracted the city? *year it was founded? *city facts(at least 5) *absoulute location? *relative location? *city attractions (at least 5) *climate/resource/geography(2p... *thanks that's all Travel Tips You have the week off. You should be doing your won homework young man. Others I lived there for a while but would still have trouble answer most of your questions. Why won't you try typing it into Wikipedia.com. Surely that will give you what you are looking for. Start with this and then if you need further questions answered ask again and I will give you those answers as well. Dallas History Overview In 1839, John Neely Bryan first visited the place that would one day become Dallas. He had come to the three forks area of the Trinity to survey a spot for a possible trading post serving Indians and settlers. The site was the easiest place to cross the Trinity, and also near where the Preston Trail was planned. This highway would link North Texas to South Texas. After surveying, Bryan returned to Arkansas to settle his affairs. While he was gone, a treaty was signed, removing all Indians from North Texas. He returned in November of 1841, to find the Indians, and half of his customers, gone. So, he shifted his trading post idea to that of a permanent community. About 22 miles to the northwest, there was a community called Bird's Fort. He invited those who had settled there to come and settle in his proposed town. John Beeman arrived in April of 1842 and planted the first corn. Other families soon followed. Members of the Peters Colony settled nearby, and Peter's Colony agents bragged on the new town, now called Dallas, attracting even more settlers. Dallas History: Topics Pegasus People, Places & Things * John Neely Bryan * John Beeman Family * Peters Colony * For Whom Was Dallas Named? * Alexander and Sarah Cockrell * The La Reunion Colony * Ku Klux Klan * The Trinity River * The State Fair * Dallas' Newspapers John Neely Bryan John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas, was born on December 24, 1810, in Fayetteville, Tennessee. He became a lawyer there. In 1833, he moved to Arkansas, presumably to recover from cholera. He lived with the Indians for a time. Later, he was involved in several business ventures in Van Buren, Arkansas. He made his first trip to Texas in 1839, to survey the area, and came back to settle in 1841.He was married in 1843, and he and his wife, Margaret, had five children. By the early 1850s, Bryan's alcoholism caused him to lose much of his respectability. In 1852, he sold his remaining land to Alexander Cockrell. In 1855, Bryan shot a man for insulting his wife. Thinking he had committed murder, he fled to the Creek Nation. Once informed the man had lived, he didn't return to his family for six years. Bryan traveled across Colorado and California, probably looking for gold. He returned to Dallas in 1861, and volunteered for the army, but was discharged in 1862 because of poor health. Once back in Dallas, he became somewhat involved in community affairs again and tried to farm. In 1877, he was committed to the State Lunatic Asylum and died there on September 8, 1877. [Return to TOP] John Beeman Family The Beemans were one of the central founding families of Dallas. The family originally came from Illinois. They had settled in Bird's Fort, a military camp 22 miles northwest of Dallas. The Beeman clan included four families, nineteen children, and four single men. The Beemans made several contributions to early Dallas. Bryan borrowed Beeman's wagon so he could get the supplies for the first store in the new town. In 1850, John Beeman began a small money lending business. William Beeman rode 140 miles to secure the official court order for the creation of Dallas County. James Beeman was elected justice of the peace for Dallas County in 1846. [Return to TOP] Peters Colony Peters Colony was the name for a large empresario grant in North Texas. William Peters led the group of twenty investors from England and the United States. According to the contract, 200 families had to be settled in 3 years. The empresarios were allowed to keep up to half the settler's land grant as payment for their services. They had trouble settling the land and requested several extensions of their contract. When the contract expired in 1848, the land was now open, and new settlers began to come. The older settlers began to become angry that the company had half of their land, and demanded that the Texas government fix the situation. However, this angered the stockholders. A compromise gave each side more time to claim the land, but the settlers were still unhappy. The compromise was later amended, but it took more than 20 years for all land titles to be settled. [Return to TOP] For Whom Was Dallas Named? Over the years, there has been a lot of debate about the name Dallas. We know that Dallas County was named for George Mifflin Dallas, vice president of the United States at the time of annexation. However, all that is known about the origin of Dallas for the name of the city is that John Neely Bryan named it for "his friend, Dallas" There are several candidates for whom this friend might be. The town was known as Dallas early in 1842. At that time, George Dallas was a practicing lawyer in Philadelphia. He had never been very far west, and Bryan had never been very far east, so it's doubtful they ever met. One theory is that the town was named for Commodore Alexander Dallas, a brother of George, who was combating piracy in the Gulf of Mexico. Another theory is that the town was named for Walter Dallas, who fought in San Jacinto, or his brother, James, a former Texas ranger. After the war, they had received land grants in McLennan, Hill, and Burleson counties, which are close enough that Bryan might have know them. Yet another candidate is Joseph Dallas who came to Cedar Springs in 1843, from Arkansas. It is assumed that they knew each other in Arkansas, and Bryan invited his friend to Texas. However, the truth is that no one is sure whom Dallas is named for, and the answer will probably never be discovered The Ku Klux Klan When the Ku Klux Klan first appeared in Dallas in 1868, its presence was hardly noticed. http://www.dallascvb.com/visitors/discov... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/dallas,_tex... City Attractions: Reunion Tower, Six Flags Over Texas (in nearby Arlington), Fountain Place, Dealy Plaza and the 6th floor museum (JFK assasination), SMU, South Fork Ranch, and Samuel Farms. Dallas was founded in 1841 and incorporated as a city February 2, 1856. Original Inhabitants: Caddo Indians (pre 1500 AD) |
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