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Identifier
metapth298414
Description
While building west from Dallas to Fort Worth in 1876, the Texas and Pacific Railway Company had the site of present Arlington surveyed and platted, as seen in this, the town’s earliest existing plan, the original of which is located in the Tarrant County Central Records, Book 388, p. 26, Tarrant County Archives, Fort Worth. The checkerboard grid pattern with regularly-spaced streets running perpendicularly eastwest and north-south is typical of many towns throughout the United States that were established in the nineteenth century primarily thanks to the presence of a railroad. [Gift of O.V " Rusty" DiSciullo]
Archival Date
1878
Location
82/6
Collection Name
Cartographic Connections
Collection Number
2009-208
Publisher
University of Texas at Arlington Libraries
Original Format
Map
File Format
JPG
Rights
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Subjects
Texas; Arlington
Item Type
image
Names
Texas & Pacific Railway
Subjects
Texas; Arlington