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Interior Design Carrollton
Texas.
Founded by Barbara Stone, Coup d'oeil has been serving the
Carrollton, Texas, Interior Design community for over 20 years.
ASID and TAID membered, Coup d'oeil won the ASID first place award
in model home / showhouse catagory in 1996 and 2000 took home the Dallas
Homebuilders Association's Design Merit Award.
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The History of Carrollton, Texas
Credits for this article are at the bottom of the article
Carrollton is on Interstate Highway 35 East fourteen miles north
of downtown Dallas in Dallas, Denton, and Collin counties. The
site was in the Peters colonyqv grant. The first settlers in the area were William and Mary Larner,
who came in 1842. The A. W. Perry family followed two years later
and claimed their headright in the Trinity Mills area. In partnership
with Wade H. Witt, Perry established a mill there. Over time he
acquired extensive landholdings, which probably included the site
of Carrollton. Many early settlers were related by blood or marriage.
In the northeastern area of settlement, which extended into Denton
County, was the English colony, where many of the large landowners,
including the Jackson, Furneaux, Morgan, and Rowe families, were
English immigrants. It is most likely that the settlement was
named for Carrollton, Illinois, the hometown of many of the early
settlers.
In the early days Carrollton was an exclusively agricultural
community. In 1846 David Myers, from Illinois, established the
first Baptist church in Dallas County near the site of present
Carrollton. Around 1856 the Union Baptist Church became the site
of the first community school. In 1878 an agent for the unfinished
Dallas and Wichita rail line filed an early plat of Carrollton
at the Dallas County Courthouse. In the same year the Carrollton
post office was established. The unfinished railway was bought
and extended to Denton in 1880 by Jay Gould,qv who subsequently sold it to the Missouri, Kansas and Texas in
1881. By 1885 Carrollton had cotton gins, flour mills, a school,
and two churches serving its population of 150. When the Cotton
Belt line crossed the Katy at Carrollton in 1888 the town developed
as a shipping center for livestock, grain, cotton, and cottonseed;
it eventually surpassed Trinity Mills, an older settlement to
the north. In 1913 the city was incorporated, and W. F. Vinson
was elected the first mayor. A gravel industry began in 1912 and
grew, so that by the late 1940s Carrollton was a "grain and
gravel" town that also supported a dairy industry. A brick
plant furnished brick for Dallas. During the postwar era the city
worked to attract major industries. National Metal Products, a
manufacturer of metal utility cabinets and shelving, established
itself there in 1946.
With the Sun Belt boom, especially as it affected
the Dallas area, Carrollton grew rapidly. The population was 1,610
in 1950, to 4,242 in 1960, and 13,855 by 1970. Between 1970 and
1980 it increased 193 percent, to 40,595; almost three-quarters
of the year-round housing units in the city were built during
that decade. In 1983, when the population was 52,000, the major
area industries included auto-parts distribution, food packing,
light manufacturing, and manufacturing of computers, semiconductors,
and electronic components. Nevertheless, Carrollton retained a
remnant of frontier living; in 1983 it still had a working cattle
ranch within its city limits. Carrollton is part of the area called
Metrocrest, a group of four northwest Dallas County cities (including
Addison, Coppell, and Farmers Branch) served by a single chamber
of commerce.
Four railroads-the Katy, St. Louis-Southwestern,
St. Louis-San Francisco, and Burlington-Northern-provide service
to the city, which has access to the airports of the Dallas-Fort
Worth metropolitan area. Carrollton is served by the daily Carrollton
Chronicle and the weekly Metrocrest News. The Peters
Colony Historical Society researches and records area history
and publishes its Elm Fork Echoes semiannually. In 1990
the population of Carrollton was 82,169.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Georgia Myers Ogle, comp., Elm Fork
Settlements: Farmers Branch and Carrollton (Quanah, Texas?:
Nortex, 1977).
Joan Jenkins Perez
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