Exposition Park: No Swamps, No Malaria — 1889
by Paula Bosse
by Paula Bosse
In 1889, Parry Bros. were developing 80 acres of Capt. William H. Gaston’s old stomping grounds — aka the Gaston Homestead. The ads came fast and furious. One sentence stands out:
The natural drainage of Exposition Park, under the guiding hand of our civil engineer, has become practically perfect. There are no swamps or other sources of malaria contiguous to this property.
Sounds good to me!
(I always thought the Fair Park area was prone to flooding, but perhaps the area I’m thinking of is not “contiguous to this property.”)
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Sources & Notes
Ad from The Dallas Morning News, Oct. 24, 1899.
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Flashback : Dallas 
“Elegant, cultured homes on Exposition Ave” I’d love to see some of those.
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[…] The address of Bullen’s store was originally 216 Exposition Avenue. After the citywide address change in 1911, it became 507 Exposition Avenue. The store was in business by at least 1896, but a newspaper article on the 62nd wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Bullen says that the business began in 1893. At this time, development of Exposition Park was exploding — see the 1889 ad I posted yesterday, here. […]
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