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John Neely Bryan builds a cabin
1841
West End, Dallas
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A Tennessee lawyer staked a trading post at a natural ford on the Trinity, expecting the river to carry commerce. It never did, the Trinity was never reliably navigable, and Dallas had to be given a reason to exist by railways instead.
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