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A tornado wipes out Cedar Hill and costs it the county seat
1856
Cedar Hill, Texas
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Peters Colony settlers took up the cedar covered ridge here in the 1840s, and the town that grew on a branch of the Chisholm Trail served for a time as the seat of Dallas County. On 29 April 1856 a tornado tore through it, killed nine people and left almost nothing standing. Dallas took the county seat and kept it. Cedar Hill spent the next century as a farm town on the escarpment before the suburbs reached it.
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