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Maple Lawn, or Maple for short is an area in
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,
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, United States, which is home to government owned section 8 projects. The area has long been home to a largely
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and Hispanic community. Maple Avenue is the main road through the area, although the Maple Lawn area is unofficially the area bound to the West/Southwest of Harry Hines Boulevard, to the East by the Dallas North Tollway, to the North/Northeast by Lemmon Avenue, and to the Northwest by Mockingbird Lane.


History

Dallas was founded in 1841 by a merchant named John Neley Bryan, two years after the area was surveyed in 1839. Dallas County was founded in 1846 and named after George Dallas, the eleventh vice president of the
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. However, the exact origin of the city's name is still unknown. Residents called the city as such at least as early as 1843, so there are currently four main theories about the origin of the name: • Named after George Dallas; • His father, Alexander Dallas, commanded the Persian Gulf Squadron. mondoni and was named after the US Secretary of the Treasury during the War of 1812; • This name was chosen in a contest in 1842; • Son George Named after Dallas, his father later named the city "after my friend Dallas" (this Dallas was not identified). Dallas was incorporated as a city in 1856 and became a city in 1871. artists and musicians founded a utopian commune west of Dallas called La Reunion. When the commune ceased to exist, many moved to Dallas, where they founded an arts district that still exists in the
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area near downtown. Contemporary Dallas has a strong theater tradition that spans classical and experimental repertoire. Dallas also has an active music scene, and various concerts are frequent in all parts of the city. In 1871, a railroad was approaching Dallas, and city officials did not want to bypass the road as originally planned. They paid the
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and
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Railroad $5,000 to move the track 20 miles west. Thus, the road did not go through Corsicana, as in the original plan, but through Dallas. A year later, the city failed to convince the
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to build a road through Dallas, so an emergency amendment to state law was passed, allowing the road to be built only near Browder Springs, south of the main road. Dallas Street. In 1873, a major railroad crossed Dallas, securing the city's future as a trading center. It soon became a true center for the cotton, grain, and bison trade. In the early 20th century, Dallas changed from an agricultural center to a center for banks, insurance companies, and other business structures. In 1930, oil was discovered 100 miles east of Dallas, and the city quickly became the center of the oil industry in
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and
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. In 1958, the chip was invented by Texas Instruments employee
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in Dallas. As the oil industry largely moved to
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by the 1980s, Dallas changed to accommodate the burgeoning technology boom (fueled by the growing
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and telecommunications industries) while remaining a banking and business center. In the 1990s, Dallas became known as
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or Silicon Prairie of Texas. On November 22, 1963, US President
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was assassinated in Dallas. In 1980, the 53rd General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Dallas. - session has taken place. {{coord, 32.8722, N, 97.2797, W, source:wikidata, display=title Neighborhoods in North Dallas