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This one is in Coppell southeast of Freeport Parkway and Southwestern Blvd. It is accessible from a parking lot at the rear of a building on Airline Drive.
South Coppell Road crossed Grapevine Creek at that point. The roadway and bridge have both been abandoned.
(photo and details from Waymark.Com)
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Wayne -
I've seen that many times from driving on 360 and wondered what is was and why it was there.
You are correct about it being a railroad bridge. Ca 1960 maps label it Great Southwest. It actually linked the Rock Island and Texas and Pacific and serviced the industrial area around Six Flags Mall.
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Below are some photos of the abandoned concrete bridges along old Eagle Ford - Singleton Road south of Irving.
The Eagle Ford community was established by the father and brothers of Sarah Horton Cockrell about 1850. In addition to a ford across West Fork there was a grain mill and store.
The location shifted south when the Texas and Pacific Railroad arrived in 1873 and the town boomed beca
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Wayne -
Thanks. I've got some current on-site photos I'll post soon.
I may be wrong about the first levee to levee bridge. It was discussed in the early 1970s but looking at HistoricAerials.Com may have been started and completed considerably later.
If you pan downstream and draw a line due north from Hampton at the south levee you can see the pilings in the channel of
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This link should take you to a photo from the UNT / Portal to Texas History website:
Greg Jaynes has previously questioned if this was the Eagle Ford (later Singleton) Bridge or if it might be California Crossing.
There was an iron bridge in place on the Eagle Ford to Irving Road on the original West Fork which did not change when the levees were built and a roadway was quickly cons
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There was a bridge on Westmoreland in the Trinity Diversion Channel which spanned bank to bank. It was apparently built of iron framework with wooden decking and approaches as a newspaper report from the early 1930s claims it was set afire by Clyde Barrow to disrupt a police chase to Irving, but soon repaired.
It was replaced by a steel and concrete span in the bottoms that appears to date fr
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This abandoned bridge spanned the West Fork of the Trinity on the old Handley-Ederville Road just north of Randol Mill Road 1/2 mile west of Loop 820. The present river channel in that area has been moved, straightened, and levees built on both sides.
The bridge appears to have been built as a triple span steel girder with concrete siderails and curbs and is typical of ca 1910-30 cons
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W -
Its a long way from Jet Star but that is the old route of SH 114. The creek is Cottonwood.
(abandoned SH 114 northwest from new SH 114 toward Texas Trail)
(culvert / bridge at Cottonwood Creek)
If you zoom out and pan to the southeast you can see another abandoned portion of old SH 114 between the DFW Public Safety Office (where Emergency Drive begins inside the fenced perm
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Curtis
On your original post I thought you were referring to one of the abandoned concrete bridges on old Hwy 114 (now Cabell) that was west of Esters Road and now within the DFW Airport property.
Old hwy 114 in Hackberry area. Well built off Jet Star. A former State Hwy. Trees on both sides of the bridge.
I could not locate the gravel pad, woods, or bridge from your new
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Jerry -
I have several maps whch show Flyers Field. The 1959 USGS TOPO shows the runway layout in full detail.
Will send by e-mail and can post here later if anyone else is interested.
You can also view aerial photos over several years at www.historicaerials.com
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Bill -
A few years ago Dave McNeely and Jim Ash led a walking tour of the area approaching Scyene Overlook from the south. There were a couple of large meadows that had apparently been cleared for farming and some smaller ones that might have. Dave and Jim are the flora and fauna experts and they also pointed out growth that was not natural to the area.
There is a gravel road roughly parr
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Scott / Greg -
Sounds like an excellent adventure. Have you christened the boat Trinity Flyer II?
Is the Elm Fork still high from recent rains? How strong was the current?
Just below the California Crossing there is a large valve that releases overflow from Lake Caroline in Las Colinas. Was it open?
I believe that unnamed dam south of Spur 482 dates from the era when Grapevine Lak
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Bill -
The approximate Parkdale route is shown as a major trail / wagon road on the 1889 USGS Dallas County Map and Sam Street's 1900 Map of Dallas County. It is well defined on the 1936 Texas Highway Map of Dallas County.
The present Parkdale Street from Haskell / Forney Road to the Parkdale Golf Club was so named and first paved in 1928, the year the club opened and the residential devel
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Curtis -
In the article online there was a map link included:
S E Dallas Neighborhoods
I am well familiar with the area and most of the neighborhoods but had not heard the reference to "Pemberton Hills" before.
Pemberton Hill Road is another matter. It runs from Lake June south to Loop 12 and there is some higher ground to the east, but hardly what I call a hill.
The road
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Curtis -
Several years ago while working on a house on Parkdale in the Lagow League (see the Old Bridge thread) I noticed older rafters beneath a later roof that appeared to have been unmilled logs or large saplings. Some of the walls of the main house, which had a couple of additions, were thick enough to enclose a log structure.
The property consists of a couple of acres and had an old
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Curtis -
Interesting subject. There is a lot to be learned studying early transportation routes.
I am familiar with all three bridges you mentioned and traveled over each many times when still in active use.
The section of the original State Highway 114 (aka Northwest Highway) from Letot (later Field Circle) through Grapevine to Rhome was completed in the early 1930s. The highway rou
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Mac -
I would date the photo/postcard between 1963 and early 1968. The car looks to be a 63 or 64 Ford Fairlane.
The ca 1895 "Courthouse Annex," offically known as the County Clerk and District Court Clerk Office Building, was demolished in May 1968.
When the Criminal Courts Building and Jail was built in 1913 the Clerks' offices moved there. The Hall of Records, built in 1
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Bill -
1943 Greater Dallas Telephone Directory:
Smith V L Doctor ofc Med Arts Bg Riverside 5253
res 1940 Old Orchard Dr Madison 7816
I'm pretty sure the Riverside Exchange for his office would be the Medical Arts Building in downtown Dallas and not the one on Jefferson in Oak Cliff.
Old Orchard Dr is in Stevens Park and Dr Smith's residence was just a block from Jim Barnes
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Bill -
I do not know if it is the same, but the 1943 Greater Dallas Telephone Directory lists Good Samaritan Hospital at 4526 Leland.. There is also a Medical Arts Hospital in the Medical Arts Bldg.
The Good Samaritian Hospital is not listed in the 1954 Directory but the Medical Arts Hospital still is.
Searching the Dallas Morning News Historical Archives for "Good Samariatn Hospita
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Greg / Holly -
It is unlikely there will be a Graff - Payne debate on this forum but that should not preclude the rest of us from debating their written words.
I do have Graff's current book and another written by him when he was at UTD plus Patricia Hill's "Dallas - The Making of a Modern City." Hill was a former student and Graff gives high credit to her own work.
I have n
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Freda -
Here are a couple of possible clues based on a search for Henry Braley in the Dallas Morning News Historical Archives. Braley and his wife were quite active in breeding and showing dogs both at the Ramsey address and later at 103 So Westmoreland. He was one of the founders of the Texas Kennel Club in 1898.
He started a business producing dog combs, clippers and related products abo
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Freda -
I believe this may be the same structure (or part of one) that was discussed on this board several years ago.
Check this thread:
One of the posters, Gerald Harris, is deceased.
Trinity Heights was a subdivision rather than a separate municipality and did not have a city hall, although it did have its own water works and school system. The present Harrell Budd Elementar
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To Ralph and Mark -
Thanks for the kudos.
I really find this subject quite interesting and it ties in to several other active projects.
It also reminded me of a post several years ago:
My dad told me of being with a date at Sivils' when they heard many police sirens to the East on the Fort Worth Pike (Hwy.80), coming their way. It was a big chase by many police cars of one auto headin
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Mark -
I think I have an explanation for the reference to the Fort Worth Pike as Highway 4.
Prior to the implementation of federal and state numbers in the 1920s the primary highways were known by various names, some of which related to the routes.
The Bankhead Highway ran from Washington D C to San Diego California. In Texas it ran from Texarkana to El Paso and when the state numbering
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There may be an error in your information re Highway 4 as no such numbered route existed in West Dallas in that era.
Most likely it should read Highway 1 as the designation of the Fort Worth Pike was then State Highway 1 / U S Highway 80. It was also known as the Fort Worth Cutoff and the Commerce Street Cutoff. It is labeled as Fort Worth Avenue on most current maps.
About three miles wes
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Fred -
I know you've mentioned your grandparents' store before but I do not recall if it was a free standing commercial building or a converted house. I recall several of those from when I lived in the area.
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Jim -
They were brothers who came to Texas from Tennessee, George being the elder. There was also a younger Mat Laws who may have been a brother or nephew..
John became county and district court clerk in 1870 and was succeeded by Alex Harwood in 1873. George served three terms as county clerk from 1860 to 1866.
George was also partner with M L Swing in "Swing and Laws" and th
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Jim –
There are at least three W S Adair columns in the Dallas Morning News between 1925 and 1931 based on interviews of Judge W N Coombes, the grandson of William Coombes. Barrot Sanders included one, without credit, in his Dallas, Her Golden Years. I believe that was Rod Gilbert’s source for A Man Named Mabel.
William Coombes’ son, Zachariah Ellis, kept a detailed diary of his tenure as
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Jim -
See my pm and e-mail re William Coombes.
I've never developed much on the Leonards: George Lawan Leonard and one of his sons, George S C Lenoard, both received Peters Colony grants. I believe Elizabeth Robertson, whose grant adjoined theirs, was the widowed sister of George Lawan Leonard.
The Leonards previously resided at least three decades in Lincoln County Tennessee, birthpla
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The obvious street names in the Industrial Properties Corporation development of the Trinity and Brookhollow Industrial Districts from the 1930s to the 1970s relate to the terrain or physical features: Rock Island for the Railroad, Levee Street runs beside the levee, and Hi-Line Drive along the Dallas Power and Light Company transmission lines.
Others seem to have generic or fairly innocuous
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