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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|2018-12-17T19:32:12+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|2018-01-21T18:47:39+00:00September 4th, 2017|Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Immigrants, La Reunion, Reunion Tower, West End|
During my last post, we saw that the La Reunion settlers were uniquely unqualified to cope with Dallas' climate, snakes and lack of [...]
By Greta|2018-01-21T18:47:39+00:00September 1st, 2017|Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Immigrants, La Reunion, Reunion Tower, West End|
In addition to drought, Considerant didn’t quite plan for living off the land in Texas. He underestimated the number of snakes and scorching [...]
By Greta|2018-01-21T18:47:39+00:00August 29th, 2017|Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Immigrants, La Reunion, Reunion Tower, West End|
The location of what would be La Reunion was scouted in 1852/3 by Victor Prosper Considerant. He returned to Brussels and ultimately procured [...]
By Greta|2018-01-21T18:47:39+00:00August 26th, 2017|Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Immigrants, La Reunion, Reunion Tower|
Reunion Tower was named for an early Dallas settlement (La Reunion) west of the Trinity River. Numbers are not exact, but roughly 200 [...]