| Texas (Dallas County), Dallas — Dealey Plaza — Birthplace of Dallas |
| | Within this small park was built the first home, which also served as the first courthouse and post office, the first store and the first fraternal lodge.
Dedicated to the pioneers of civic progress by order of the park board. — Map (db m4675) |
| Texas (Dallas County), Dallas — Dealey Plaza National Historic Landmark |
| | Dealey Plaza
has been designated a
National
Historic Landmark
This site possesses national signifigance
in commemorating the history of the
United States of America
1993
National Park Service
United States Department Of Interior — Map (db m4677) |
| Texas (Dallas County), Dallas — 6895 — Formerly The Texas School Book Depository Building |
| | This site was originally owned by John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas. During the 1880s French native Maxime Guillot operated a wagon shop here. In 1894 the land was purchased by Phil L. Mitchell, President and Director of Rock Island Plow Company of Illinois. An office building for the firm's Texas division, known as the Southern Rock Island Plow Company, was completed here four years later. In 1901 the five story structure was destroyed by fire. That same year, under supervision of the . . . — Map (db m4661) |
| Texas (Dallas County), Dallas — John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza |
| | President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) was assassinated in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. This event changed the city – and the world – forever. As a tribute to this extraordinary man, John F. Kennedy Memorial Plaza was dedicated on June 24, 1970. In the years since, it has become an integral part of the city’s urban landscape and cultural heritage.
“a place of quiet refuge, an enclosed place of thought and contemplation separated from the city around, but . . . — Map (db m4672) |
| Texas (Dallas County), Dallas — 6605 — John Neely Bryan and Margaret Beeman Bryan — 1810–1877 and 1825–1919 |
| | In 1839 Tennessee lawyer John Neely Bryan chose this high bluff and shallow ford on the Trinity River as site for a trading post. Finding Indians scarce when he returned in 1844, he platted a town, installed a ferry, and called the place Dallas. In the 1840s, the Republic of Texas opened its Central National Road from here to the U.S. border, and drew settlers to this area with liberal land grants.
Margaret Beeman was a daughter of John Beeman, a prosperous man from Illinois, of North . . . — Map (db m24929) |
| Texas (Dallas County), Dallas — Kennedy Assassination Route |
| | On November 22,1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, thirty-fifth President of the United States, visited Dallas. A Presidential Parade traveled north on Houston Street to Elm Street and west on Elm Street. As the parade continued on Elm Street at 12:30 P.M., rifle shots wounded the President and Texas Governor John Connally.
Findings of the Warren Commission indicated that the rifle shots were fired from a sixth floor window near the southwest corner of the Texas School Book Depository Building. . . . — Map (db m4660) |
| Texas (Dallas County), Grand Prairie — TX 12012 — LiveStone Lodge No. 152, F. & A. M. |
| | Originally built east of Grand Prairie near the African American community known as “The Line,” LiveStone Lodge No. 152, Free and Accepted Masons, was granted a charter on July 24, 1903 by the Prince Hall Masons of Texas.
In 1944, the lodge building was moved to the Dalworth community. The site, in one of the few areas where African Americans were allowed to buy property, cost $200. As at “The Line,” LiveStone members, leaders in the African-American community of . . . — Map (db m5343) |
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