The settlement of La Reunion is crumbling
During my last post, we saw that the La Reunion settlers were uniquely unqualified to cope with Dallas' climate, snakes and lack of [...]
The saga of La Reunion Settlement continues as our settlers arrive in Dallas
In addition to drought, Considerant didn’t quite plan for living off the land in Texas. He underestimated the number of snakes and scorching [...]
How Reunion Tower came to be named……(La Reunion history continued)
The location of what would be La Reunion was scouted in 1852/3 by Victor Prosper Considerant. He returned to Brussels and ultimately procured [...]
Reunion Tower is named for a bunch of European hippies
Reunion Tower was named for an early Dallas settlement (La Reunion) west of the Trinity River. Numbers are not exact, but roughly 200 [...]
Dual Pegasuses
Why does Dallas have two of these magnificent beasts? The original glowing red Pegasus sat atop the Magnolia Building on Commerce Street. It [...]
Dallas and its twin Pegasuses
Why is a red Pegasus the symbol of Dallas? And how did Dallas come to have two Pegasuses? Short answer: Dallas loves oil [...]
Mortuary Reports, Part III – Max Eberle
Further investigation in to the Dallas Morning News database reveals that Max Eberle was a bartender at Turner Hall, in excellent physical health [...]
Mortuary Report Part II
The Dallas Morning News Mortuary Reports from March 15th, 1899 list “Max Eberle, 34 years, found hanging from a switch beam at the [...]
Mortuary Report
Dallas used to be a small enough town that the undertakers would report the names and causes of death of every single [...]