Texas History
One can say the history of Dallas preservation runs deep and straight to Junius Heights. Longtime resident Martha Heimberg purchased her home in the neighborhood in 1973 for $26,500. She was there when the historic columns welcoming people to the neighborhood were moved to Column Park on Abrams Road. When she first moved to the…
While living in Dallas has many, many advantages, there are times when we all yearn for a little less hustle and bustle and gravitate to the calming atmosphere of a small town. If that sounds like something you would be interested in then let me sweeten the pot for you: less hustle and bustle and…
Today’s Tarrant County Tuesday takes us West to an enchanted stretch of S. FM 4 called Lone Camp in Palo Pinto County. This might be the most challenging article I’ve written in the eight years with CandysDirt.com. (Yeah, Candy, where’s my anniversary gift?) This is a story of a property that doesn’t fit cleanly in…
Only four families have owned the Victorian mansion on an acre at the corner of Lamar Street and Columbia Street in Weatherford, and now some history-loving buyer will be the fifth. The home, which sits at 304 S Lamar St., was first home to John D. Baker, a prominent Weatherford resident who started construction on…
Sometimes (OK, many times) we get some pretty cool stuff sent our way. Earlier this week, someone shot us a new interactive map that tells you what Native American tribes lived on the land where your house (or business, for that matter) sits. We noodled with it a bit in between deadlines, and it seems…
