• Grapevine Springs Preserve - Coppell TX
    Today, Grapevine Springs Preserve is completely surrounded by the City of Coppell, but, in 1843, it was a wilderness where Sam Houston, then President of the Republic of Texas, and others camped while successfully negotiating a peace treaty with local Native American tribes. Dallas County accepted the donation of the land for a park in 1936. The Works Progress Administration (WPA) turned the area into a public park and built the rock-lined channel, walls, flumes, bridge abutments, grills, and paths that still exist. During World War II, the land reverted to prior owners. The Baptist Foundation of Texas acquired the property, and...