Overview of the Collection |
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Repository: |
Dallas Municipal Archives |
Creator: | |
Title: | City of Oak Cliff |
Dates: | 1891-1904, 1930 |
Quantity: | 2 linear inches |
Abstract: | Manuscript ledger, typescript, photocopies relating to the history of Oak Cliff, Texas |
Identification: | 91 - 087 |
Language: | Records are in English |
Ledger book
of ordinances, typescript documents, and photocopied items documenting
the history and annexation of the City of Oak Cliff, Texas, to the City
of Dallas, Texas in 1903.
The City of Oak Cliff, Texas was created in 1887 by land developers
Thomas L. Marsalis and John S. Armstrong on the site of a community
called Hord’s Ridge, settled in 1845. Incorporated in 1891, Oak
Cliff grew to a population of 3,640 and governed itself until 1903 when
a depressed economy prompted a vote for annexation to the City of
Dallas. The annexation was unsuccessfully challenged by the last
administration of the City of Oak Cliff.
The collection contains a bound ledger documenting the incorporation
and early civil and criminal ordinances of Oak Cliff, from 1891 to
1901. It also contains a printed copy of the 1903 Revised Civil and
Criminal [Code] Ordinances of the City of Oak Cliff; a 1930 typescript
one-page memoir by Dallas Mayor Ben E. Cabell regarding the annexation
of Oak Cliff; a 1903 typescript railway ordinance; photocopies of
the 1904 District Court suit brought by the City of Oak Cliff against
the City of Dallas, challenging annexation; and a photocopy of the
April 4, 1903 City of Dallas ordinance annexing Oak Cliff.
The collection is organized in order of original documents, printed
material, and photocopies. The original copy of the City of Dallas
annexation ordinance is found in the Ordinance Books in the Dallas
Municipal Archives. The 14th District Court original records are found
in the Dallas/Texas History Division, Dallas Public Library.
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Dallas -- Texas -- History | ||
Oak Cliff (Dallas, Tex.) | ||
Oak Cliff (Dallas, Tex.) -- History |
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Box: | Folder |
Title, Date | ||||||||||
1 | Documents relating to the history of Oak Cliff, Texas, 1891-1904 | |||||||||||
Manuscript documents: | ||||||||||||
1 | Ordinances 1891-1901, Oak Cliff,
manuscript ledger |
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2 | Typescript ordinance granting the
Dallas & Oak Cliff Electric Railway Company the right to construct,
maintain, and operate an electric street railway, 1903 |
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3 | Annexation of Oak Cliff, remarks by
Ben Cabell, October 12, 1930 |
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Printed documents: |
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4 | Revised Civil and Criminal
Ordinances of the City of Oak Cliff…, 1903 |
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Photocopied documents: |
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5 | 14th District Court Cause #22372
[Dallas County, Texas], City of Oak Cliff v. City of Dallas, 1903,
photocopies |
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6 | Oak Cliff annexation ordinance
[Ordinance Book #12, page 1], April 6, 1903, photocopy |