Famous Folks of Pioneer Park, Part I
This is Dr. John William Crowdus' headstone in Pioneer Park. He shares this grave marker with his first wife and infant daughter. Dr. [...]
Ferris Wheel: the Tragic End to the Story
The Ferris Wheel opened in mid-June, 1893 at the Chicago World's Fair. It was seven weeks behind schedule. Costing just shy of $300,000, [...]
State Fair opens Friday!
In celebration, we have a guest writer, LiveFreeOrPie, celebrating the art deco buildings at the State Fair of Texas. Whoop, whoop, y'all! Fair [...]
State Fair Month in full effect!
1893 World's Fair gave us a lot of things that are now common fare. Possibly included in those: Diet carbonated soda. Quite a [...]
More celebratory State Fair goodness!
In celebration of the Texas State Fair opening later this month, you may be asking yourself: Hey, Greta, what other things did the [...]
Fair Innovations!
In celebration of the State Fair of Texas opening this month, we are going to take a look at the mammoth Chicago World's [...]
State Fair of Texas is almost here!
All of my upcoming posts will be fair themed as the State Fair of Texas is set to start in just about three [...]
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 [...]