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Cities in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex

  • Arlington, TexasThe first Texas General Edward H. Tarrant fought Native Americans of the Village Creek settlement on the 24th of May 1841.
  • Denton, TexasOn the 8th of July 1860, approximately half of the downtown Square burned down in what was later called the Texas Troubles.
  • Frisco, TexasIn 1902, a line of the St. Louis, San Francisco Railway began construction through North Texas. Steam locomotives required periodic watering stops along this…
  • DallasJohn Neely Bryan planted a wooden stake on a bluff near three forks of the Trinity River in 1839. He returned two years later to establish a permanent…
  • Mansfield, TexasThe rolling Cross Timbers country of north central Texas received its first wave of European settlers in the 1840s. These pioneer farmers came primarily from…