The Garland Landmark Society, Inc.
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The Texas State Capitol building is shown in this promotion photo marked 1889, the year of it's completion. Unscreened by the trees that mask it today, the building's distinctive architecture creates a very different image than that familiar one in modern views.
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Woodsmen of the World, founded in 1890, is a non-profit fraternal society promoting community service and insurance benefits such as life policies often aimed at burial needs. Shown here in the early 1900's is a delegation from Garland's Woodmen Lodge No. 361 as it prepares for a parade.
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Dressed in their Sunday best, this wagon load boys and girls embarks for church from the
James Nelson farm home near
the Pleasant Valley city limits, Pleasant Valley was then part of Garland’s
trading area.
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The Pleasant Valley Store, built in 1927 by T.J. McClain at the northwest corner of Pleasant Valley and Merritt Roads, is the third mercantile structure to occupy the site since 1870. The previous store building housed fraternal lodgesand the post office for the Pleasant Valley community, but this one now hosts domino games year-round.
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A
Social Meeting produced this photo. Present were a host of Garland ladies who arrived at this scenic local spot in two touring cars with several out-of-town guests. An enlargement of the photo with most of the ladies identified is currently on display in The Garland Landmark Museum.
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The White Rock dam and
spillway might as
well have been inside Garland’s city limits, because locals considered the lake part of their own recreational territory. Shown here ca. 1914, the new structure reportedly cost $260,000. Several Garland families once leased lots around the lake for cabins.
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The J. S. Wyrick store operated between and 1937 on the west side of Jupiter Rd. between Miller and Kingsley Rds. This stretch of Jupiter had once been part of the Greenville-Dallas Pike, and Mr. Wyrick community of farmers as Wyrickville on the Pike.
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Malmedy,
Belgium residents are shown with relief supplies collected and sent by Garland residents, who adopted the town in 1946 for war relief. Malmedy had been the northern-most point of the "Bulge" in the German Ardennes Offensive of 1944.
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The
Centerville Store stood on the southwest side of the Centerville community with groceries, sundries and gasoline, which was being delivered by a distributor when this photo was snapped ca. 1940. Nearby stood the Centerville School, later consolidated into the Garland ISD.
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The Anderson
store, once located at the intersection of Rose Hill and Rowlett Roads, served in the 1890's as the post office for the Housley Community, later renamed Rose Hill. Legend has it that the new name originated with Mrs. Elias T. Myers, an early resident and presumably a rose fancier. The store building was demolished in 1974.
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The Bonnie Barge was a pleasure boat operated on White Rock Lake by Garland native John H. Williams, Sr. from 1946 to 1956. Shown here are enthusiastic passengers from the Garland High School classes of 1946 and 1947.
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Dallas
Garland Airport was one of several
names applied to an airfield located in the northeast quadrant of Northwest Hwy. and Jupiter Rd. from the 1930's to the 1970's, when construction of the LBJ Freeway squeezed it out. Shown ca. 1962 beside a Cessna 182 is airport operator John Huett greeting Congressman Bruce Alger.
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The H. A. Harvey, Jr. sternwheeler made a 67-day trip up the Trinity River to ramp on Dallas' Commerce St. in 1893. For the next five years it made only 13-mile excursion trips to the south, but its threatening presence was sufficient to lower rail freight rates for agricultural commodities in the Dallas area.
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The bridge on Ben Davis Road spanned Rowlett Creek just northeast of the Firewheel Town Mall. Built in the early 1920’s with wooden planks on a steel frame, the bridge was one of the last survivors of its type and carried daily traffic until it was demolished in 2003.
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Big Springs Cemetery, lies north of Big Springs Baptist Church at present Jupiter and Campbell Rds. This 1978 gate photo indicates that the cemetery was established in 1871, but the gate numbers now claim an inception date of 1868. No witnesses survive to settle the issue.
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