Dallas Downtown Historic District in Dallas County, Texas — The American South (West South Central) The Old Red Courthouse 📍 Inscription. Click to hear the inscription. Designated as public land in John Neely Bryan's 1844 city plat, this was the site of a log courthouse built after Dallas County was created in 1846. When Dallas won election as permanent county seat in 1850, Bryan deeded the property to the county, and a larger log structure was erected. In 1856 county offices occupied a 2-story

Oak Cliff in Dallas in Dallas County, Texas — The American South (West South Central) The Hord Log Cabin 📍 Historical Marker Inscription ⬇️ First permanent structure built on the west side of the Trinity River in Dallas, this cabin of hand-hewn logs was erected in 1845 by Judge William H. Hord (d. 1901), Dallas County Judge, 1848-50, who brought his family here by covered wagon from Tennessee. In 1887 Oak Cliff developer T.L. Marsalis bought the Hord property. Mr. and Mrs. Martin Weiss rescued