It made national news in December 2000, when "The Texas Seven", prisoners from the Connally Unit near Kenedy, Texas, about 65 miles southeast of San Antonio, escaped. The seven made their way north, and on Christmas Eve, broke into an Oshman's sporting goods store in Irving. Officer Aubrey Hawkins, 29, was shot 13 times when he and several other police officers responded to the alarm, and was run over by the car the prisoners used to leave the scene. Hawkins died later at Parkland Hospital.

The Texas Seven headed toward Colorado, where Donald Keith Newbury and Patrick Murphy, Jr., decided to splinter off from the group. After they parted and headed for Colorado Springs, the five that remained behind were captured. One of them killed himself before he could be taken into custody. A tip placed Newbury and Murphy at a Colorado Springs Holiday Inn. After a six hour standoff they surrendered to the police.

A Tribute To A Fallen Officer

This little-seen and little-visited cemetary has been surrounded all all sided by businesses. When in use, this was one of several "paupers fields" used by the City of Dallas. The site is maintained by the city Parks Recreation Dept.

Dallas City Cemetery

Stage 1 takes you to the final resting place of one the Depression Era's most notorious outlaws - Bonnie Parker. Along with her partner in both love and crime, Clyde Barrow, the pair's spree of robbery and murder spread through Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Missouri. Bonnie and Clyde were killed in a barrage of 167 bullets at Black Lake, Louisiana, on May 23, 1934.

Stage 2 shows you an historic cemetery, a burial ground that served the pioneer families who settled in the area. Graves here date from the 1870s. Several veterans of the Civil War are interred here, including Col. Pleasant G. Swor (1834 - 1878), who led an assault against Union forces at the Battle of Corinth.

Outlaws and Pioneers

This cemetery was the original burial ground of famed outlaw Bonnie Parker. She was eventually disinterred, and moved to Crown Hill Cemetery, on Webb Chapel (See [url=http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ea528151-d76b-4894-8e68-c2e904b0ed58]GC596A - Outlaws and Pioneers[/url] cache).

The site is along Fishtrap Road. The road was originally simply a path taken by the members of the colonists of the [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Reunion_(Dallas)]La Reunion utopian society[/url] (established in the mid 1800s) to Willow Fish Traps in the Trinity. Early burials in this cemetery included aged French Grenadier Pere Lagogue; also a young child of colony director F. Cantagrel. The society's company failed, but certain families remained, including the Loupots, Remonds, Reverchons, and Santerres. They became business land cultural leaders in Dallas area, and used this cemetery as late as 1939 for family burials.

The Hidden Marker

Near the Carrollton Time Capsule, and A.W. Perry Homestead Museum. A.W. Perry was one of the pioneer settlers who helped to develop the area. Built in 1909 from material salvaged from the first Perry home built in 1857, the home stayed in the family until donated to the community in 1975; restored as a bicentennial project. Furnishings and tools from the turn-of-the-century homestead afford visitors a nostalgic look at a nearly forgotten life-style.

A free walk-through tour of the home is available Wednesday through Saturday, between 10am to Noon, or 1pm to 5pm.

Time In A Bottle

Here you'll find a massive Oak Tree, older than Ft. Worth itself. As the story goes, back when Ft. Worth was an actual fort, and not a town, there was a Federal regulation that prohibited commercial operations within a certain radius of a military installation. The site of the Trader Oak was just outside that limit, and was also near a spring, providing an excellent locale to conduct commerce. On December 14, 1954, the area was officially named "Traders Oak Park".

A plaque placed by the The Tarrant County Historical Society states:

Historic Tree

Henry Clay Daggett & Archibald Franklin Leonard established a trading post on this site in 1849. The first election in Tarrant County was held under this tree in 1850 and Birdville voted the first county seat.



Traders Oak Cache

List of caches that are near, or highlight places of historic importance in the DFW area.

I've only just begun compiling this list. If you know of a cache that's applicable, feel free to email me about it.

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