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Dallas is one of the ten largest cities in the United States and the heart of the largest metropolitan area in Texas. It is the county seat of Dallas County and small portions of the city also extend into the neighboring counties of Collin County, Denton County, Rockwall County, and Kaufman County.
Dallas is the largest city of the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, a large metropolitan area in North Texas. As of the 2000 census, Dallas had a total population of 1,188,580 and the Metroplex had a population of 5,222,000, making it the largest metropolitan area in Texas, the ninth largest metropolitan area in the United States, and one of the 50 largest metropolitan areas in the world. The area is also host to four different major league sportsIn the United States, the four prominent major sports leagues are Major League Baseball (MLB), the National Football League (NFL), the National Basketball Association (NBA), and the National Hockey League (NHL). There are currently 13 metropolitan areas t.
Dallas was founded in 18411841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). Events January 26 The United Kingdom occupies Hong Kong. Later during the year, the first census of the island recorded a population of about 7,500. February 18 The first ongoing f. While Dallas County was established three years later in 1844Events January 15 University of Notre Dame receives its charter from Indiana. February 27 The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti. February 28 A gun on the USS Princeton explodes while the boat is on a Potomac River cruise, killing two United and was named after George M. DallasGeorge Mifflin Dallas ( July 10, 1792— December 31, 1864) was a U. Senator from Pennsylvania and the eleventh Vice President, serving under James K. Dallas was born in Philadelphia, and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) i, who was the United States Vice PresidentA vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning in place of. Vice Presidents in Government In politics, a vice president is a politician whose primary function is t at the time and supported Texas' annexation, the origin of the city's name is debatable. Dallas was so called by its residents at least as early as 1843Events February 6 The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City). February 11 Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan May 18 The Disruption of the Church of Scotland took place. There are four theories as to the origin of the city's name; it was named:
- after George Dallas;
- after George Dallas' brother Commodore Alexander James Dallas , who was stationed in the Gulf of Mexico and was the U. S. Treasury Secretary around the end of the War of 1812;
- in a town-naming contest in 1842;
- after the friend of the son of Dallas' founder, John Neely Bryan , whose son later stated that his father had said he had named it "after my friend Dallas" a person whose identity is not certain.
In 1855, a group of European artists and musicians set up a utopian community west of Dallas called La Reunion. When that venture collapsed in 1857, many of the artists moved to Dallas where they established the base of the artist culture that exists today in the Deep Ellum neighborhood in downtown. In the 1970s, Reunion Arena and Reunion Tower (a trademark of the skyline) were built in honor of the La Reunion colony. Today, Dallas boasts a lot of theater with much room for experimentation and a reasonable live music breeding ground for artists digging in to hone their craft before heading off to larger fame.
In 1871, railroads were beginning to approach the area. Dallas city leaders paid one railroad to build its tracks through Dallas, and tricked another railroad by having a state law passed that required them to build their tracks through town. The north-south and east-west routes intersected in Dallas in 1873, thus ensuring its future as a commercial center.
Dallas quickly became the center of trade in cotton, grain, and even buffalo. As it entered the 20th century, Dallas transformed from an agricultural center to a center of banking, insurance, and other businesses. In 1930, oil was discovered 100 miles (160 km) east of Dallas and the city quickly became the financial center for the oil industry in Texas and Oklahoma. Then, the integrated-circuit computer chip was invented in Dallas in 1958. So when the oil industry relocated to Houston in the 1980s, Dallas was beginning to benefit from a burgeoning technology boom while continuing to be a center of banking and business. In the 1990s, Dallas became known as Texas' Silicon Valley, or the "Silicon Prairie."
