Historical Markers in Grand Prairie, Texas

Start with these Grand Prairie stories

• Cross Timbersplaced 1970

  This narrow strip of sandy timberland, called "The Eastern Cross Timbers", separates the Blackland Prairie and the Grand Prairie.

• Antioch Life Park Cemeteryplaced 2019

  Early African American pioneer Mose Jordan Sr. came to the Grand Prairie area as an enslaved person of David Jordan in 1852.

• Ford Cemeteryplaced 1982

  Pinkney Harold Ford (1831-1901) was the leader of a Kentucky family who migrated to Texas in 1855.

• Jordan-Bowles Houseplaced 1972

  Built about 1860 of hand-hewn logs from bottomland of Trinity River. The builder, David Jordan (1808 -79), came to Texas about 1859, moving his…

• Avion Villageplaced 1998

  As early as the mid-1940s, housing was scarce in Dallas as well as in other centers of defense production and military activity throughout the…

• Dr. H. V. Copeland Homeplaced 1982

  Dr. H. V. Copeland Home Early Grand Prairie resident Barney P. Hale and his wife Ruth built this home for their family in 1902.

Grand Prairie on the Texas history calendar

• May 24: Cross Timbers

All 16 historical markers in Grand Prairie

• Antioch Life Park Cemetery2019
• Avion Village1998
• Cross Timbers1970
• Dr. H. V. Copeland Home1982
• Ford Cemetery1982
• Fuget Cemetery1992
• Grand Prairie Airfield1998
• Hensley Field2000
• Jordan-Bowles House1972
• Jordan-Hight Family Cemetery1986
• Livestone Lodge No. 152, F. & A. M.1997
• Marion Loyd Homestead1980
• Shady Grove Cemetery1978
• Southland Cemetery, Old1986
• West Fork United Presbyterian Church1982
• Wilson Cemetery1984

Historical markers near Grand Prairie

• Arlington48 stories · 6 mi
• Irving18 stories · 7 mi
• Euless9 stories · 8 mi
• Duncanville8 stories · 8 mi
• Cedar Hill5 stories · 10 mi
• Bedford7 stories · 11 mi

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