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Re: Houston Street Viaduct - 11 years ago
MC, I pointed Ben to the location. I got to know him when he started asking around a couple years ago about McCommas Bluff, the locks and Trinity City. I spoke with him on the phone and he was able to locate Miller's Ferry doing a lot of legwork. Good for him. That is very hard to track down. As you can see from the photo he found one of the prehistoric lens sites too, where Indians campedby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Houston Street Viaduct - 11 years ago
Thanks for the post MC Toyer. Great information!by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: A Tale of Two Cabins - 11 years ago
My friend who provided me with the wonderful photos of the old Beeman property last year in the photos above went back to White Rock Spring last weekend. I wish I could have gone with him but I needed to tend to my family ranch in Central Texas, worried about the wildfires down that way. I really do wish I could have gone because I wanted to see if the spring was still flowing after this long drby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Belle Starr's Cave - 11 years ago
Thanks for the photos Samfordb! Looks like the trestle has been burned in the past, judging from your photos. Much more overgrown than I thought too, wow. That might be a better place to explore in the winter when the snakes and underbrush die back some.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Cox Cemetary - 11 years ago
If I recall the last time I visited the cemetery which was 4-5 years ago, the gate had a combo number padlock on it. The combo to unlock the gate was either 1848, the date the cemetery was founded and in wrought iron on the sign over your head...or...it's the street address of the cemetery. This could have changed since I last visited.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Belle Starr's Cave - 11 years ago
samfordb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wasn't one of Belle Starr's beaus Blue Duck, who > appeared as a character in "Lonesome Dove"? No clue. So much has been written about that group in folk lore that one finds it hard to make sense of it all.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: DHS Website Help Needed - 11 years ago
Did you look around in your junk mail box for a "verification code" sent from the messageboard? Sometimes auto-response emails like that get kicked into that. Good luck because I have no idea!by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Belle Starr's Cave - 11 years ago
The location of this should put it on or near the banks of Prairie Creek in Crawford Park. Has anyone been there before? Its supposed to be near the railroad tracks somewhere. I'm sure nothing remains of it. An old news article suggests there was a brickwork semicircle in the creek for a spring used to water horses. I would be interested to know if anyone has seen that. Description: The oldby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Sleepy Hollow Golf Club - 11 years ago
Apparently now it's a wetland chain of lakes: If I recall there was a landfill called "Linfield Flat" on the north end of the golf course.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: business locations that suck - 12 years ago
Medallion has really turned itself around. For about 10 years ago it was really crummy but has managed to rise out of the ashes. I think the odd ownership by the Caruth family led to those issues. Too many of the Caruths count on that shopping center for their income. Bulldozing the Village View Apartments which was full of illegal aliens and replacing it with a new complex full of twentysometby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: East Dallas Rail Line - 12 years ago
Houston and Texas Central (Southern Pacific) Railroad's East Dallas Depot, which was located on the southeast corner of Pacific Avenue and the railroad's right of way (now North Central Expressway), as it appeared in September 1916. The Texas and Pacific Railway's Dallas passenger depot located on the south side of Pacific Avenue at the intersection of Lamar Street. This depot was in serby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Interurban routes to East Texas - 12 years ago
Here is one I have trouble placing, Caption reads: St. Louis - Southwesten (Cotton Belt) Railroad train No. 2 headed by Engine No. 308, a 1600 H.P. Alco - GE diesel-electric locomotive, at University Park Depot in Dallas, Texas on June 1, 1952 ---- Where was the University Park Depot and did the Cotton Belt run that way? Is that the present day toll road?by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Interurban routes to East Texas - 12 years ago
Robert C. Rice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > On the MKT line that goes by the side of Love > Field along Denton Road, if you go to Denton Road, > and Maple Avenue was there ever an old passenget > station located there? I realize this is an old post but they did run trains to Love Field This was a special train bringing in a crowd ofby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Interurban routes to East Texas - 12 years ago
Here is a photo of White Rock Station. I had no idea where it was and thought it might be further to the south till I searched the board.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: The Dallas Ford Plant in Operation during WW11 - 12 years ago
ruthcook Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Where was that plant located? Grand at I-30. It's still there. Impossible to miss, actually.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Original location of Millermore mansion - 12 years ago
M C Toyer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bill - > > It was located on the east side of Bonnie View at > Millermore Street about midway between Illinois > and Kiest. You can see it on HistoricAerials. > > M C I had accidentally run across the cemetery using Bing maps. Went out over New Years and saw the cemetery which is off Kiby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Quantrill's Raiders in North Texas - 12 years ago
Read up on Colonel James G. Bourland or the great Gainsville Hanging. Many people do not know about it because it was a shameful event that most would rather forget. The iron fist of the law was strong in the border counties.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Original location of Millermore mansion - 12 years ago
I have searched the archive and came up blank as to the original location of the Millermore mansion now located at Old City Park. Does anyone know what the current address of the old homestead location might be?by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Honey Springs/ Overton homestead location - 12 years ago
M C Toyer Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Bill - > > Just from looking at the aerials there does not > appear to be much left of the stream between the > Overton and Miller homesites and what is intact is > generally right next to an industrialized area. > Last year I had a job on Overton right between > I-45 and 310. I wanderedby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
A grave, a hoax or what? - 12 years ago
I figured this might interest some of you amateur grave/cemetery types. This was found in Nacogdoches County by a deer hunter. Ran across it on this website: That messageboard keeps me entertained mostly with the automatic game camera photos that people have on their deer leases. Sometimes the cameras capture some interesting animals. Sometimes people post long lost things like wreckedby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Honey Springs/ Overton homestead location - 12 years ago
Thanks for the link MC. I had not read that article until you posted a link. In October I started researching this area based on a conversation I had with a man who was metal detecting near Honey Springs. Earlier in the day he found what must have been a WW2 era 75mm or 105mm inert artillery round(no brass shell, just the round), it was painted blue. He showed it to me and both agreed it wasby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Honey Springs/ Overton homestead location - 12 years ago
Thanks MC! Found it using your address on a couple old aerial surveys. There was a striking difference in the geography from the 1930s to the 1950s. They had a nice spot for a home. Out of the riverbottom but close enough to take advantage of it. Homesite is long gone as you mentioned. I have only driven by that apartment complex. It is a den of thuggery currently. From what I read, theby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Honey Springs/ Overton homestead location - 12 years ago
Wayne Pritchett Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I lived in the 310 area ( was US 75 then ) in the > early 60s and remember some of the oldtimers > talking about Honey Springs. My bet would be on > the Joppa area. > > Here is what the Handbook of Texas has on the > subject. > > "HONEY SPRINGS, TEXAS. Honey Springs was neaby Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Honey Springs/ Overton homestead location - 12 years ago
I have run into a roadblock or a fork in the road on the location of Honey Springs in South Dallas County. Some references suggest it is located in what is now the Joppa neighborhood, north of Loop 12 and east of Highway 310 near Carbondale and Yancy. The other location is on Five Mile Creek west of the VA Hospital near the intersection of Mentor and Gracey. Near Loop 12 and Lancaster Road.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Army-Navy surplus store locations, 1953-54 - 12 years ago
It was there in the early 80s. Maybe it closed in 81-82 or so. Long long long gone. It was close to Weirs.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Old Vickery - Park Lane and Greenville - 12 years ago
Thanks for sharing those photos Jeb! They are really interesting, especially the one looking out from the station towards the south down Greenville Avenue. Love it!by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Trinity River bridges - 12 years ago
I wish they would have included a map, noting where each photo was taken.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Notice how few of us are posting lately? - 12 years ago
Post something interesting and people will respond. I still check the forum on a regular basis.by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives
Re: Johns Beeman & Family Arrive - 12 years ago
That would be really hard to nail down! Those early pioneers wandered around so much and did not write alot of things down for the most part. They were a part of Bonham and then Birds Fort too, right?by Bill Ferris - DHS Archives