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Welcome to Dallas, Texas.
Dallas is the second-largest city in the state of Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The city covers almost 400 square miles and is the county seat of Dallas County.
The city is the main cultural and economic center of the 12-county Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area, which has over 5.8 million people. Dallas is one of 11 U.S. world-class cities, as ranked by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group & Network.
The downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) skyline from the Trinity River floodplain. Photo by Drumguy8800, April 2006
Dallas was founded in 1841 and formally incorporated as a city on 2 February 1856. The city is known globally as a center for telecommunications, computer technology, banking, and transportation. It is the core of the largest inland metropolitan area in the United States and lacks any navigable link to the sea-Dallas's prominence despite this comes from its historical importance as a center for the oil and cotton industries, its position along numerous railroad lines, and its powerful industrial and financial tycoons.
The city of Dallas was founded by John Neely Bryan in 1841 after first surveying the area in 1839. Bryan, who shared Sam Houston's insight into the wisdom of Native American customs, must also have realized that these Caddo trails intersected at one of the few natural fords for hundreds of miles along the wide Trinity floodplain. Dallas County was established in 1846 and was named after George Mifflin Dallas, who was the eleventh United States Vice President at the time. However, the origin of the city's name is debatable; Bryan stated only that it was named "after my friend Dallas".
By the turn of the twentieth century Dallas was the leading drug, book, jewelry, and wholesale liquor market in the Southwestern United States. It also quickly became the center of trade in cotton, grain, and even buffalo. It was the world's leading inland cotton market, and it still led the world in manufacture of saddlery and cotton gin machinery. As it further entered the 20th century, Dallas transformed from an agricultural center to a center of banking, insurance, and other businesses.
In 1958 the integrated circuit was invented in Dallas by Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments; this event punctuated the Dallas area's development as a center for high-technology manufacturing (Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor independently invented the integrated circuit a few months later). During the 1950s and 1960s, Dallas became the nation's third-largest technology center, with the growth of such companies as Ling-Tempco-Vought (LTV Corporation) and Texas Instruments.
Downtown, the center of the city and the epicenter of urban revival, coupled with Oak Lawn and Uptown Dallas, the shiny new urban areas thriving with shops, restaurants, and nightlife. Downtown Dallas has a variety of neighborhoods, including the West End Historic District, the Arts District, the Main Street District, Farmers Market District, the City Center business district, the Convention Center District, the Reunion District and Victory Park.
The city itself has historically been white but has diversified over the past century. The city is a major destination for Mexican immigrants seeking opportunity in the United States while staying close to their home in Mexico. For the most part, the southwest area of the city is predominantly Hispanic, the southern and southeastern area of the city is predominantly black, the northern part of the city is predominantly white and the northwestern portion of the city is Hispanic and Asian. These definitions are of course quite generalized, and the city boasts a high degree of diversity in all of its neighborhoods.
On average, Dallasites eat out about four times every week, which is the third highest rate in the country; Dallas has twice as many restaurants per capita as New York City. Dallasites are very fond of their local sports teams especially "America's Team," the Dallas Cowboys. The Cowboys-five time Super Bowl champions-are well loved by locals, even during losing seasons, and even if another local team is a leader in its sport. Sports calendars and other memorabilia are very common, and on Sundays people tend to watch sports games on television.
Dallas is home to several significant events throughout the year. Perhaps the most notable is the annual State Fair of Texas held annually at Fair Park since 1886. The fair is a massive event for the state's 22 million people and brings an estimated US$350 million to the city's economy annually. The UT-OU game at the Cotton Bowl and other Cotton Bowl games also bring significant crowds to the city. Other festivals in the area include Cinco de Mayo festivities, extravagant Independence Day events, Saint Patrick's Day parades in Irish communities such as Lower Greenville, and Juneteenth festivities.
Dallas is a major center of education for much of the South Central United States. The city itself contains several universities, colleges, trade schools, and educational institutes. Several major Universities also lie in enclaves, satellite cities, and suburbs of the city.
The city of Dallas has many hospitals within its bounds and a number of medical research facilities. One major research center is UT Southwestern Medical Center in the Stemmons Corridor, along with its affiliate medical school, UT Southwestern Medical School. The system includes Parkland Memorial Hospital and Children's Medical Center Dallas.
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Places of interest:
Highland Park, TX (2.3 miles), University Park, TX (3.5 miles), Cockrell Hill, TX (8.2 miles), Farmers Branch, TX (10.9 miles), Addison, TX (11.4 miles), Hutchins, TX (12.1 miles), Mesquite, TX (12.2 miles), Richardson, TX (12.5 miles).
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Hotels in Dallas
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The Westin Galleria
13340 DALLAS PARKWAY - Dallas, TX, US 75240
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Hyatt Regency Dallas Reunion
300 REUNION BOULEVARD - Dallas, TX, US 75207
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Marriott Quorum - Galleria
14901 N DALLAS PKWY - Dallas, TX, United States
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Radisson Hotel & Suites
2330 W. NORTHWEST HWY - Dallas, TX, US 75220
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Embassy Stes Love Field
3880 W NORTHWEST HWY - Dallas, TX, United States
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Renaissance Dallas North
4099 VALLEY VIEW LANE - Dallas, TX, US 75244
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Hotel Lawrence
302 SOUTH HOUSTON STREET - Dallas, TX, US 75202
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Doubletree Campbell Center
8250 N CENTRAL EXPRESSWAY - Dallas, TX, US 75206
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Renaissance Dallas
2222 NORTH STEMMONS FRWY. - Dallas, TX, United States
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Wyndham Dallas North
4801 LBJ FREEWAY - Dallas, TX, US 75244
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Embassy Suites Market Center
2727 STEMMONS FREEWAY - Dallas, TX, United States
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Hawthorn Suites Market Center
7900 BROOKRIVER DRIVE - Dallas, TX, US 75247
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Wyndham Anatole
2201 STEMMONS FREEWAY - Dallas, TX, US 75207
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Sheraton Park Central Dallas
7750 LBJ FREEWAY - Dallas, TX, US 75251
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Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre
5410 LBJ FREEWAY - Dallas, TX, US 75240
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The Melrose Hotel
3015 OAKLAWN AVENUE - Dallas, TX, US 75219
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Fairmont
1717 N. AKARD ST - Dallas, TX, US 75201
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Hampton Inn West End
1015 ELM ST. - Dallas, TX, US 75202
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Howard Johnson Inn Dallas
9386 LBJ FREEWAY - Dallas, TX, US 75243
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Omni Dallas Parkwest
1590 LBJ FREEWAY - Dallas, TX, US 75234
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