Cedar Springs
Earliest known Historic Site in Dallas County
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Marker Text: Visited in 1840 by Colonel Wm. G. Cooke's preliminary exploration for a route between Austin and Red River. A community also called Cedar Springs, established in this vicinity in 1843 by Dr. John Cole, rivalled Dallas in an election in 1848 for county seat. In 1929, the land was annexed to Dallas. (1936)
Marker No: 6647
Gray Granite 1936 Centennial Marker
Geographic: 32.819935,-96.815300
Location: on Lemmon Avenue between Hawthorne Avenue and Loma Alto Drive in Craddock Park; Dallas
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