Wading in Turtle Creek, 100 Years Ago
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
A photograph of children wading in a very different-looking Turtle Creek, taken about 1915, the year Highland Park (pop. 1,100) was incorporated.
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Sources & Notes
Photo from the 1915-1916 SMU Rotunda yearbook.
Population factoid from Wikipedia.
Click picture for larger image.
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Copyright © 2015 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
Flashback : Dallas 
That is a place that still has so little history and yet it is a place that was really fun…..while it is a place the Bowen family and Cole’s made use of to Draw water in the 1870’s…and the McKinney Ave Viaduct came about in the 1930’s…..where several drownings had come up with Hispanic Americans…..a shame Ross Perot Jr has not made much of the Historical end that does exist …in recent years…..
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[…] (the photo seems to be from the same session that produced the one seen in my earlier post, “Wading in Turtle Creek, 100 Years Ago”). (Both images of the bluff-lined creek are larger when […]
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