Page 27 - Plano, TX Heritage Preservation Plan

Architectural Styles

• Victorian • Wooden Commercial
• Queen Anne Buildings
• Shotgun

SMALLPOX OUTBREAK
COTTON BELT An outbreak of smallpox at the Collinsworth Farm leads to
a quarantine of the town. To prevent an epidemic, armed
RAILROAD OPENS guards restrict access to downtown.

The Cotton Belt Railroad was the second to pass through
Plano, this time running east-west and connecting the Collinsworth
city to markets in Arkansas, Missouri, and beyond. Today,
the old Cotton Belt railroad line is planned for a Dallas
Area Rapid Transit (DART) light rail line connecting Mary Schimelpfenig
Plano to the DFW International Airport. Olney Davis
Wetzel PLANO FIRE
Mathews DEPARTMENT
ESTABLISHED

Carlisle Grocery
Store Opens Mitchell Schimelpfening-Dudley-
Ferrell-Wilson O’Neal, Lamm, Wells

1894
1884 1886 1888 1890 1892 Depression of 1893 1895

Plano National Bank Plano Masonic 824 PLANO HIGH Plano Masonic
opens Lodge #235 SCHOOL Lodge #768
Disbanded POPULATION celebrates its first Chartered

THE ECLIPSE FIRE OF PLANO graduating class
COMPANY

GREAT FIRE
OF 1895
Brent House is built on Preston Substantial physical and
Road. It would later be moved to population growth
Old City Park in Dallas during this time period
was accompanied by
numerous fires which
Mules repeatedly destroyed the
Plano was the leading producer of business district of Plano.
mules, including the largest mules west One of the last great fires
of Mississippi River. C. S. Haggard owned occurred in 1895, when all
a particularly large mule that came to be but a few buildings were totally
known as “Mammoth Jack.” destroyed.

Residential Commercial Church Cemetery Downtown Fire

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