Old Highway Maps

I found an Internet Site which provides mostly oil company provided highway and city maps of Texas and especially the Dallas area.

Found them very helpful in locating streets and roadways renamed and relocated. Covers the time periods 1917 through 1973. Below is the link.

http://www.dfwfreeways.com/old-highway-maps

I am not completely useless, I can always be used as a bad example.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/02/2017 06:54PM by DallasCop2566.

Love the DFW Freeway site. Refer to it often and the photos are great. Lived in the Camp Wisdom/Polk area in the 50's & 60's. The growth in that area has been amazing. I tend to lurk on this site, but will try to do better . . . and I'm retired now too!

The map site is a treasure, and a couple of the maps have helped me better understand some of the arterial connections in Oak Cliff and the area around Love Field.

FWIW, and not related to Dallas, the late thirties -early forties maps have comments associated with them regarding Big Bend. Particularly that the area was served only by "unimproved dirt" roads. Actually, the maps in question depict an "improved road," with the legend defining that as being surfaced with gravel, oyster shell (probably not in that area), or other such material running from Marathon down to the heart of what is now Big Bend National Park (a portion of which was Big Bend State Park at the time). There is even a state highway designation shown on one of the maps, though the comment refers to that road as "unimproved dirt."

Dave McNeely

you can also check out SMU's aerial photos from the 30s

[sites.smu.edu]

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