The history of Lancaster Texas
Before the courthouse square: Blackland Prairie and first settlers (1840s–1850s) Long before highways and warehouses stitched South Dallas County together, the land that would become Lancaster sat on the fertile Blackland Prairie—dark clay soils that drew farmers in the Republic of Texas era. The first permanent Anglo-American settlement associated with Lancaster dates to September 1844, […]
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