Calvary Baptist Church - At one time Tenth Street was home to more churches located on one street than anywhere else in the United States. Of the 23 original churches that existed on 10th Street, today most of the churches are gone with only seven remaining. The church farthest west on 10th Street still…
History Posts from Google Site - Mary Elizabeth "Lida" Hoe W. E. Griener Actress Meri Welles Calvary Baptist Church Jim Town Sunset High School Leslie Allison Stemmons Linda Darnell Movie Star The Boundry The Bison / Vogue Theatre Peter's Colony / E. C. Thomas Survey Residents Sunset Hills neighborhood in the 1920, 1930, 1940 Census Records
Jim Town - The following articles were found on the internet at this site: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jwheat/jimtown.html 1913 Jim Town Is Now Taking On Real City Ways Who says that Jim Town is not putting on style? Whoever says so, does not know Jim Town. Ever since Jim Town was placed on the map, the…
John A Merrifield Cemetary - John A. Merrifield was born 29 December 1792 in Harden County, Kentucky. He was 1st cousins twice removed for the famous Daniel Boone. Son of Alexander Merrifield and Rachel Boone Merrifield. John A. Merrifield served in Captain Thomas Joyes' Company Kentucky Detached Militia commanded by John Davis From November 10…
Leslie Allison Stemmons - Leslie Allison Stemmons is known as the father of the Sunset Hill Addition. He was the son of Conferate Colonel John Martin Stemmons and Rebecca Serena Allison, who moved from Greenville, Missouri to Dallas County, shortly after the Civil War around 1867. Leslie was born on November 8, 1876 in…
Linda Darnell Movie Star - Before she went to Hollywood California, Linda was from Hollywood Avenue, Oak Cliff, Texas. She was born October 16, 1923 as Monetta Eloyse Darnell. Linda resided at 715 South Hollywood Avenue, in the Sunset Hill Addition of Oak Cliff. Here are a few links that outline the life and times…
Mary Elizabeth “Lida” Hoe - The Lida Hoe Family: L to R Standing: Sitting:
Peters Colony / E. C. Thomas Survey - The area called Sunset Hill Addtion today, had it's early origins out of the Peter's Colony. In 1941 a North Texas empresario granted a group of English investors, led by William S. Peters to migrate and settle in the area of today's Oak Cliff vacinity. William had migrated to the…
Sunset High School - Sunset High School was the 2nd High School built in Oak Cliff as it expanded westward. Prior to the construction of Sunset High School, Oak Cliff High School (today called Adamson High School) was only high school in the town of Oak Cliff. Sunset was named after the Sunset Hill…
The Bison Vogue Theatre - At what date the Bison Theatre was built is unknown. The first mention of the theatre was in a 1928, with a seating capacity of 600 people. In 1948 the the threater was demoloshed and replace with a more modern theatre called the Vogue, with a seating capacity of 1050…
The Boundary - The Crimson Line in front of the L.O. Daniel "Cedar Crest" Home on Jefferson Blvd just east of where Sunset High School was to be built. At the corner of Jefferson and Marlborough lies an area known in it's heyday as "The Boundry". It was at this point that you…
W. E. Greiner - The first and original W.E. Greiner Junior High School located just south of 12th Street and Edgefield. The original Brick building