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Dallas, Texas, 1841 - 1856
Submitted by K. Torp
Source: "The Mesquite Tree", Vol 21, No. 1

In 1845 voters in the future Dallas County approved the annexation of Texas to the United States by a vote of 29 to 3. On March 30, 1846, Dallas County was officially formed by order of the state legislature from portions of Nacogdoches and Robertson counties, and named probably for George Mifflin Dallas, vice president of the United States under James K. Polk . At Dallas, the temporary county seat, a log cabin was built to serve as a courthouse. In 1850 an election was held to find a permanent county seat.

 

In 1861, since Dallas County was the food-producing center for North Texas, the Confederate government established a general quartermaster's and commissary headquarters for the army of the Trans-Mississippi Department there.

 

 

 

 

 

Throughout its history Dallas County had a vigorous Hispanic population, but it was difficult to detect in official records because until the 1960s Mexican Americans were listed as white in the census and were not enumerated as a separate group.

          

Cities

Addison
Balch Springs
Carrollton
Cedar Hill
Cockrell Hill
Combine
Coppell
Dallas
DeSoto
Duncanville
Elam

 Farmers Branch
Ferris
Garland
Glenn Heights
Grand Prairie
Grapevine
Highland Park
Hutchins
Irving
Lancaster
Lewisville		 Mesquite
Oak Cliff
Ovilla
Plano
Richardson
Rowlett
Sachse
Seagoville
Sunnyvale
University Park
White Rock
Wilmer

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