By Greta|2019-02-18T16:34:40+00:00February 18th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, beer, Children's Toys, Civil War, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, graves, Immigrants, innovations, Men, Restoration, train history, trains, Women|
Adolphus Busch, honorary Dallasite and his powerhouse wife, continued. I didn’t want to be a bummer on Valentine’s day, so I only mentioned [...]
By Greta|2019-01-11T21:06:41+00:00January 11th, 2019|architecture, art, Civil War, colorado, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, graves, Pioneer Park Cemetery, Politics, Restoration, Slavery|
John Neely Bryan, as you remember from our last installment, took off after shooting a man. The man survived, but Bryan Stayed gone [...]
By Greta|2018-12-17T19:32:12+00:00December 17th, 2018|Accessories, architecture, art, Black History, cemeteries, Chicago world's fair, Children's Toys, Civil War, Columbian Exposition, cyclones, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, department stores, Design, Dogs, Dry goods store, East Texas, Fires, Freemasons, graves, Great Depression, historic food, Immigrants, innovations, knights of pythias, La Reunion, lynching, Magnolia Building, Men, Mollie A Bailey Circus, Murders, Oddfellows, Old Red Museum, Omni Hotel, Pegasus, Pioneer Park Cemetery, Politics, rail lines, Restoration, Reunion Tower, Slavery, South Dallas, Style, Texans, Texas State Fair, Thanksgiving, train history, trains, West End, White Rock Lake, Women|
GIFT CERTIFICATE AVAILABILITY Are you stuck on what to buy for your in-laws? Saddled with a co-worker you don't know in the Secret [...]
By Greta|2018-01-21T18:31:38+00:00January 19th, 2018|Black History, Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, East Texas, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Men, Politics, Restoration, Slavery, Uncategorized|
Our story of Shack Roberts, freed slave/politician/minister/blacksmith/founder of Wiley College continues. Running as a Republican (which was the liberal party at the time), [...]
By Greta|2018-01-21T18:32:38+00:00January 17th, 2018|Black History, Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, East Texas, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Men, Politics, Restoration, Slavery|
My last post included Roberts, TX, a small town 17 miles from Greenville and a mysterious death that involved a man 'falling from [...]
By Greta|2018-01-21T18:33:21+00:00January 15th, 2018|Black History, Civil War, Dallas History, Dallas People, East Texas, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Men, Politics, Restoration, Slavery|
Mysterious Death GREENVILLE, TEX., May 22 [1893] – News reached here to-night of the mysterious death of Tom Wallace, in the vicinity of [...]
By Greta|2018-01-21T18:48:12+00:00November 12th, 2017|Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, historic food, Immigrants, innovations, Men, Politics, Pumpkins, Restoration, Slavery, South Dallas, Texans, Thanksgiving, West End, Women|
Thanksgiving is right around the corner. As such, I have chosen a clever title for my next round of posts. An aperitif is [...]
