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A Little History of Garland, Texas

Despite all of the metroplex conveniences Garland still offers a comfortable, hometown atmosphere to a diverse, thriving citizenry of more than 222,650 people, making it the 10th largest city in Texas, and the 83rd largest in the United States.  The City is 15 miles northeast of downtown Dallas, and bordered by Interstate 635, Interstate 30, and U.S. 190.  The DART Light Rail Line bisects the city with two stations, one at Forest Lane and Jupiter Road and one in Historic Downtown Garland.  D/FW International Airport is 30 minutes away. 

Community rivalry, a devastating fire, and the location of two railroads played a vital part in the founding of the city called Garland, Texas.

The Garland area was part of the vast Peters colony, a venture by W. S. Peters for the settlement of families around the present Dallas, Texas area before Texas attained statehood in 1846. The area contained acres and acres of wildflowers, trees in the bottom lands only, and a few bands of wandering Indians.

Soon after the settlers began arriving about 1850, the pioneers found the black soil ideal for cotton and made it their primary agricultural product. By 1867, two cotton gins had been built to accommodate the farming community which was launched in 1874 with a store and later a mill, built by a man named Moles. The corn mill was built on the northwest bank of Duck Creek, so the settlement took the same name and in 1878 a post office was established.

However, the Santa Fe Railroad built a rail line and a depot that bypassed old Duck Creek by almost a mile in 1886. A village, named Embree, after a prominent physician Dr. K. H. Embree, grew up near the depot. Many of the townspeople from Duck Creek moved to the new area and the post office went with them. That same year, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad (MK&T) came through and built its own station a little further north and called it Duck Creek after declining to join the Santa Fe in a union station.

Each seeking to lure citizens of old Duck Creek to their community a battle ensued between Embree and the new Duck Creek.  Finally, Dallas County Judge Thomas A. Nash, a leader of the Duck Creek forces, asked a visiting Congressman, Joe Abbott, to move the post office between the two towns. Abbott submitted a bill to Congress, forcing the two railroads to deliver to the new post office. In 1887, the government not only moved the post office, but also named the new location Garland, in honor of then Attorney General A. H. Garland.  Both, Duck Creek and Embree, as well as the old Duck Creek, were dissolved as they combined to form the new city of Garland. 

A-Action Home Inspection Group has been serving the Dallas - Fort Worth Metroplex since 1995. Our multi-inspector firm has performed hundreds of inspections in the City of Garland, Texas.