State Fair Celebration Continues!
Do you remember that one year when all anyone ever talked about was how amazing and innovative and delicious Pabst Blue Ribbon beer [...]
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 [...]