White Rock Lake
White Rock Lake

Author: Sally Rodriguez

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780738578835

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In 1909, Dallas city leaders approved the damming of White Rock Creek to create a new water source for the increasing needs of a growing city. As a result, so much of the life and history of Dallas has echoed through the life and history of White Rock Lake. In the early decades, the lake was home to many private summer homes and boat houses, as well as hunting and fishing clubs. Soon thereafter, a bathing beach, sailing clubs, public boathouses, and picnic facilities were added. The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration transformed the lake with more recreational and leisure amenities. World War II brought increased military uses that included a POW camp for German officers. Those early city leaders could hardly know that the lake they were creating 10 miles outside of Dallas would become an urban oasis enjoyed by over two million visitors a year.

White Rock Lake Revisited
White Rock Lake Revisited

Author: Sally Rodriguez

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467131172

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For more than 100 years, White Rock Lake has been the people's playground. The types of lake activities popular here have changed through the decades as Dallas has grown from a small country town to a large metropolitan city. The lake first known for hunting and fishing is now an urban oasis enjoyed by well over two million visitors a year. Images of America: White Rock Lake Revisited focuses on the people and activities of the lake and expands on the previously published Images of America: White Rock Lake.

Deadly Dallas
Deadly Dallas

Author: Rusty Williams

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2021-06-28

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1439672830

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Spring of 1904. An inexperienced automobile driver jumps the curb and drives into the lobby of the St. George Hotel. The mayor orders a roundup of unlicensed dogs due to a citywide outbreak of rabies. An elevator crushes the head of a young man as he retrieves a half dollar he had dropped down the shaft. Embers from a wood-burning stove transform a sleeping house into a funeral pyre. A ten-year-old boy in City Park has a spike driven into his temple by a playmate with a fence picket. All this in just a few days. Rusty Williams catalogues the heartbreaking and bizarre forms in which death stalked Dallas at the turn of the twentieth century.

To Love and Die in Dallas
To Love and Die in Dallas

Author: Mary Elizabeth Goldman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2008-07

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9780765353900

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A tale of love, friendship, and betrayal in Dallas high society unfolds through the pages of a diary that recalls the teenage years of four best friends in the 1950s. But time changes everything, and the murder of one of the friends in the 21st century reveals deeply hidden secrets.

Ghosts of North Texas
Ghosts of North Texas

Author: Mitchel Whitington

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing

Published: 2002-09-03

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 146166196X

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Tuck this book under your arm, jump in your car, and get ready to discover the ghosts of North Texas! These aren't tall tales-these are stories about places you can visit on your own ghost-hunting excursion!

The Travis Club
The Travis Club

Author: Mark Louis Rybczyk

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9781490329604

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Taylor Nichols is a young writer who pens obscure historical guidebooks about his hometown, San Antonio, Texas. His work receives little notice until he unearths a 100 year old mystery that the powerful had hoped would never be uncovered. How far will the city's power brokers go to silence Taylor and his band of friends known as The Travis Club? Intrigue and romance bring this mystery alive in a one of a kind city, San Antonio.

Best Tales of Texas Ghosts
Best Tales of Texas Ghosts

Author: Docia Schultz Williams

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 1998-03-31

Total Pages: 409

ISBN-13: 0585233772

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Renowned storyteller Docia Williams gathers a medley of some of the best haunting stories from her four previous books-Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas, Phantoms of the Plains, Ghosts Along the Texas Coast, and When Darkness Falls-then she adds a hundred pages of new ghostly tales from the Piney Woods of East Texas and from North Central Texas, including the Dallas area. Once again Mrs. Williams brings to light tangible evidence and eyewitness testimony in Best Tales of Texas Ghosts to validate an illusive world without dimension, one filled with bizarre and disturbing accounts of unexplained presences. After interviewing hundreds of people with firsthand experiences and personally witnessing eerie manifestations, she has concluded, "There are things happening all around us that can only be labeled as supernatural."

White Rock Lake
White Rock Lake

Author: Sally Rodriguez

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2010-02-01

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1439639671

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In 1909, Dallas city leaders approved the damming of White Rock Creek to create a new water source for the increasing needs of a growing city. As a result, so much of the life and history of Dallas has echoed through the life and history of White Rock Lake. In the early decades, the lake was home to many private summer homes and boat houses, as well as hunting and fishing clubs. Soon thereafter, a bathing beach, sailing clubs, public boathouses, and picnic facilities were added. The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Works Progress Administration transformed the lake with more recreational and leisure amenities. World War II brought increased military uses that included a POW camp for German officers. Those early city leaders could hardly know that the lake they were creating 10 miles outside of Dallas would become an urban oasis enjoyed by over two million visitors a year.