Duck Creek is an area in
Garland,
Texas,
United States that once consisted of two distinct
unincorporated communities (sometimes referred to as Old Duck Creek and New Duck Creek) in northeastern
Dallas County Dallas County may refer to:
Places in the USA:
* Dallas County, Alabama, founded in 1818, the first county in the United States by that name
* Dallas County, Arkansas
* Dallas County, Iowa
* Dallas County, Missouri
* Dallas County, Texas, the nint ...
.
The community began using one- and later two-room log cabins as schools in 1852, with the first multi-grade school, Duck Creek Academy, established in the 1880s. It moved into a permanent red schoolhouse in 1899, and it was later renamed Duck Creek High School. In 1936 Central High School opened; its building was destroyed in 1946 by a fire. A new one story building replaced it.
The area was named after
Duck Creek, a tributary of the
Trinity River.
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{{Dallas County, Texas
Geography of Garland, Texas