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The Beginning – By the year of 1839, John Neely Bryan who was a Presbyterian farmer, tradesman, lawyer and the founder of Dallas City came to the three forks area of Trinity for finding a potential place as trading post serving Indians and settlers. The criteria for this survey were the place near the Preston Trail (Tim nguon va giai thich cho cai nay ) placed and the easiest for crossing the Trinity. After all, Arkansas was the chosen place for his affairs. However, a half of his customers (Indians) when he came back to the place in 1841 were gone due to a treaty about pushing all Indians out of North Texas. As the result, a permanent community idea was replaced instead of the concept of a trading post. By inviting people who had settled in Bird’s Fort that 22 miles away of the northwest to come and take place in his proposed town. The name Dallas was called from that time as Bryan became the leader of the community. The town was quickly growing and became a part of the state of Texas with the arriving of first doctors and lawyers in 1845. The Trinity River was a huge resource for sustaining life and settling along the river’s banks. Later the century there were several new water resource were additionally excavated like Lewisville Lake, Benbrook Lake, Lavon Lake, Joe Pool lake, etc… As being adjacent to the Trinity River, infrastructure system with bridges over the river and canals within the site were constructed as a significant aspect of the city. Flood of 1908 – The meaning of the river runs through the city was clearly understood in 1908 after a historical flood of the river. In May, the Trinity River had a flood gage of 52.6 feet after three-day rainfall. As a report, eleven people were killed within this time and 4... ... middle of paper ... ...fficient high for preventing flood but not the largest of floods. Until 1926 the levees system was extended by the new Dallas County Levee Improvement District No.10 in the confluence of the Elm Fork and West Fork downstream to the Santa Fe Railroad. Original Dallas Floodways Construction: the largest project in the state and the second largest construction in the country levees improvement in June of 1928. The total cost of the project reached to $14.000.000 approximately. This project extended the flood protection system to 20 districts, reclaimed more than 7,318 arces land of the west bank and 3,333 arces of the east bank. As the extension of the project, more industrial land were also created on the east site as well as other civic improvements. The plan also included the arrangement of facilities, infrastructures, land uses, etc… Works Cited Student

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