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Dallas County, Texas, Maps from 1880-1920



Dallas Public Library Launches Murphy & Bolanz Web Site
Maps of Dallas County from 1880-1920

The Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division of the Dallas Public Library
announces the availability of a new Internet resource - Murphy & Bolanz
Block and Addition Books, Dallas County 1880-1920. Access to these maps
detailing the growth and development of Dallas County is just a click away
at http://dallaslibrary.org/ctx/murphyandbolanz/.

The Dallas Public Library received a grant from the Texas State Library and
Archives Commission TexTreasures program to help preserve, digitize and
place online the Murphy and Bolanz collection of real estate maps of Dallas
County between 1880-1920. The grant provided funds to preserve and digitize
the 3 neighborhood addition books from the collection, transcribe the index
and develop a web site.

In 1874, John P. Murphy established a real estate firm and started creating
plats of every neighborhood addition in Dallas County. Charles F. Bolanz
joined the firm in 1884, and together they produced a set of maps of each
addition and block in Dallas and some of the surrounding suburban towns. The
maps provide a snapshot of Dallas as it existed in those early days.  The
maps show every street, every creek (even those since turned into storm
sewers), every railroad crossing, most cemeteries, and property ownership.

The Dallas Public Library believes the benefits to users in Dallas, in Texas
and throughout the United States are innumerable. Those who would find
benefit in using these maps include legal researchers, environmental site
assessors, genealogists, historic preservation specialists, urban
historians, and teachers and students.

The maps are available for viewing at
http://dallaslibrary.org/ctx/murphyandbolanz/, and maps will be added as
they are processed.  For additional information, contact Allison Baker,
Archivist, or Michael Miller, Special Collections Librarian, at the Dallas
Public Library, Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division, 1515 Young Street,
Dallas, Texas 75201; Telephone: (214) 670-1435; E-mail:
abaker@dallaslibrary.org; mmiller@dallaslibrary.org.

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