Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 3, Number 2, Fall, 1991 Page: 21
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I :- : : DALLAS BY THE DECADE
1872 Houston & Texas Central Railroad reaches Dallas; telegraph lines link Dallas with towns along
the railroad route.
Sarah Cockrell opens an iron toll bridge across the Trinity River.
Mule-drawn street cars link the railroad depot with downtown Dallas.
New Hope Baptist Church is established as the first African-American church in Dallas.
Terminus merchants such as E. M. Kahn and the Sanger Brothers open dry goods stores, which
will later become department stores.
Volunteers organize a Dallas Fire Department.
1873 Texas & Pacific Railroad crosses the H & TC at Dallas.
First Jewish congregation, Temple Emanu-El, is established.
J. Y. and Thomas Field build Dallas's first opera house.
Roller skating is introduced to Dallas.
1874 Ursuline nuns open an academy for girls of all faiths and found a new convent.
1875 "Martha" is the first opera presented in Dallas, at Field's Theater.
J. H. "Doc" Holliday, after practicing dentistry in Dallas for three years, is "invited" to leave town
after a shooting in a local saloon.
Seventy-year-old Elizabeth Cady Stanton lectures in Dallas on women's rights.
1876 City acquires land near Browder's
Springs to create the first
public park, City Park.
1878 H. C. Blakeney purchases first bicycle,
with iron tires.
1879 R. C. Buckner founds a home for
orphans.
1880 A Board of Trade is organized to
promote industry and
manufacturing in Dallas.
The Pearl Street Reading Club, the
first "culture club" for
women, is organized by Mary
Mitchell (Mrs. John Henry)
Brown.
Population of Dallas is 10,358.
* The arrival of the railroads in 1872
and 1873 transformed Dallas into a
boomtown and established it as the
dominant city in North Texas.
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Dallas County Heritage Society. Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 3, Number 2, Fall, 1991, periodical, 1991; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth35119/m1/23/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Historical Society.