Historical references
Sources & bibliography
These 38 references support the timeline, map, community histories, people-and-money notes, and selected archival images. The citation numbers on the history page link to the entries below.
Historical claims reviewed October 13, 2026. The story page explains conflicting accounts and map limitations.
- Dallas, TX — Handbook of Texas
Texas State Historical Association
Settlement, railroads, economic growth and neighboring annexations.
- Dallas City Charter, 1871–Current
Dallas Municipal Archives · Collection 1991-074
The 1856 town charter and the role of a municipal charter.
- History of the Town
Town of Highland Park
Development, the November 29, 1913 vote and municipal facilities.
- City History
City of University Park
Utility pressures, April 12, 1924 incorporation and the 1945 vote.
- Highland Park, TX — Handbook of Texas
Texas State Historical Association · Lisa C. Maxwell
Town growth and encirclement; its 1913 request story is disputed here.
- University Park, TX — Handbook of Texas
Texas State Historical Association · Maxwell / Armstrong
SMU, incorporation, shared institutions and the water district.
- Attempts To Annex the Park Cities
Drew Whatley · Legacies, Fall 2015, pp. 4–13 · UNT Libraries
Archival study of the 1918, 1932 and 1945 campaigns, with endnotes.
- Highland Park Shopping Village nomination
National Park Service · National Historic Landmark nomination
Development history, pp. 17–19; repeats the disputed 1913 story.
- FAQs on Annexation
City of Princeton, Texas
Used for the basic concept, not to explain historical legal procedures.
- Town of Preston Hollow, 1939–1945
Dallas Municipal Archives · Collection 1991-110
Documents the April 1945 decision to join Dallas.
- About Highland Park
Town of Highland Park
Present-day location and the town’s 1913 incorporation date.
- Town of Highland Park v. Guthrie (1925)
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas · 269 S.W. 193 · reproduced by CaseMine
Court opinion documenting the 1922 waterworks purchase, bonds and unequal connection fees.
- Lawther, Joseph Earl
Texas State Historical Association · John H. Slate
Dallas’s 1917–19 mayor and his later banking career.
- Rodgers, James Woodall
Texas State Historical Association · Joan J. Perez
Dallas’s 1939–47 mayor, oil-and-gas lawyer and planning advocate.
- Bartholomew Plan (Dallas)
Texas State Historical Association
The 1943 planning work, 1945 merger campaign and $40 million bond program.
- Adams, Nathan
Texas State Historical Association · Joan J. Perez
Cotton finance, banking leadership and loans secured by underground oil reserves.
- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Federal Reserve History · Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas staff
Dallas’s selection and the Reserve Bank’s opening in 1914.
- Highland Park, Texas Depot — July 1922
Museum of the American Railroad · UNT Libraries, The Portal to Texas History
Archival photograph of the Katy depot; creator unidentified. See the archive record for rights and reuse information.
- Videos & Archives — Picturesque Highland Park
Town of Highland Park
Source of the undated postcard and the town’s selected centennial YouTube films.
- History of Town Hall
Town of Highland Park
The 1924 town hall, designed by Otto Lang and Frank Witchell, housed administrative offices and a public auditorium.
- City of Oak Cliff, 1891–1904, 1930
Dallas Municipal Archives · Collection 1991-087
Documents Oak Cliff’s annexation in 1903 and the subsequent challenge; used to correct the 1904 date in an older summary.
- Property Tax System Basics
Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts
Cities, counties, school districts and special districts are separate taxing units with their own jurisdictions.
- Cities — municipal boundary representations
Dallas County Elections GIS · SDE_DissolveCities20240827
Contemporary GIS reference downloaded October 13, 2026. Based on 2023 municipal survey responses and additional resources. The publisher cautions that alignments may not represent actual boundaries. No historical boundary reconstruction is implied.
- OpenStreetMap — map data and attribution
OpenStreetMap contributors
Contemporary streets and landmarks beneath the municipal overlays. The map retains visible OpenStreetMap attribution.
- Oak Cliff, TX — Handbook of Texas
Texas State Historical Association
Elite development, the 1893 depression and the 1903 annexation vote.
- Joppa Neighborhood: community meeting, March 29, 2022
City of Dallas · Planning & Urban Design
Page 3 records civic organizing in 1948, service goals and annexation on October 3, 1955.
- Joppa — Historical Marker Community
Dallas County Historical Commission · Winter 2021 Chronicle, pp. 1, 4–5
The 1872 community, Henry Critz Hines, Melissa Pierce and Laurabelle Foster.
- Wheatley Place Historic District
City of Dallas · Office of Historic Preservation
Development for Black residents in 1916 and the Myrtle Street streetcar connection.
- Tenth Street Historic District
City of Dallas · Office of Historic Preservation
Post-Civil War settlement, schools and churches, and the 1993 landmark district.
- Bishop College — Handbook of Texas
Texas State Historical Association
The college’s move to southern Dallas in 1961 and closure in 1988.
- Mission, Vision & History
Paul Quinn College
The college’s official timeline records its relocation to Dallas in 1990.
- Nasher XChange announcement, October 15, 2013
Nasher Sculpture Center
Vicki Meek’s Bishop College history project, developed with Highland Hills residents and alumni.
- Tenth Street: temporary halt on demolitions
National Trust for Historic Preservation · Julia Rocchi, August 16, 2019
Community advocates discuss disinvestment, low incomes and the August 2019 council action. This is a dated historical account.
- Highland Hills — Dallas neighborhood service area
City of Dallas · Sanitation Services
Used to establish Highland Hills as a Dallas neighborhood, not a separate incorporated city.
- Juanita Craft Home, 2618 Warren Avenue
City of Dallas · Office of Historic Preservation
Civil-rights organizing and the housing-related racial violence of 1950–51 near Craft’s home.
- Tenth Street Historic District Freedmans Town — marker 18318
Texas Historical Commission · Texas Historic Sites Atlas
Oak Cliff’s Black community, historical segregation and the marker at 1216 E. 8th Street.
- Annexations — City of Dallas GIS
City of Dallas · Current Planning Division
GIS reference footprints: Oak Cliff’s 1903 annexation tract (object 263) and the October 3, 1955 tract containing Joppa (object 589). Informational representations, not surveyed boundaries.
- Dallas Landmark Historic Districts — City GIS
City of Dallas · Office of Historic Preservation
Published Tenth Street and Wheatley Place district polygons. Duplicate copies with identical geometry were removed. These reference districts do not trace every historic community’s full extent.