Old City Park
Your kids have taken field trips here. Probably, you did too. But the future of the city’s oldest park and collection of late-1800s buildings is uncertain. Come May 26, Old City Park will change hands from the Dallas County Heritage Society to the City of Dallas Parks and Recreation department. In this episode of Dallas…
Read MoreThursday night, an extremely well-attended public meeting was held at Old City Park’s historic Browder Springs Hall on the transition of the park’s management, operation, and future. Dallas City Council’s District 2 representative Jesse Moreno kicked the evening off with a few stories about his relationship with the park, which included being married at Pilot…
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, a social media post about Old City Park’s resident donkeys Waylon and Willie and their exodus from the historical village just south of downtown Dallas started a lively online discussion. There were more than 30 comments that included some pretty inflammatory remarks about demolishing historic buildings and developers taking over the park.…
Read MoreWhat do you know about the Municipal Archives? I bet it’s not much, so let’s change that. Our city archives are located at Dallas City Hall. They include every imaginable departmental record in a variety of forms and formats, including ledgers, manuscripts and typescripts, maps, photographs, microforms, and printed materials. It’s a gold mine of information…
Read MoreFor those of you new to Texas, let me introduce you to North Texas Giving Day, which is Sept. 23, 2021. The Communities Foundation of Texas sponsors this 18-hour online event every year to support local non-profit organizations in 20 counties of North Texas on one user-friendly platform. North Texas Giving Day was created in…
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