Mesquite

Mesquite

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Publication Date: 7th September 2015

The story of Mesquite, Texas, is a story of an east Dallas County settlement that became first a depot town on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, then a "Boomtown USA" suburban city. Recently, and not alone among other aging American Southwest suburbs, it has become an urban center facing cultural, social, and educational challenges, as well as economic decline.
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The story of Mesquite, Texas, is a story of an east Dallas County settlement that became first a depot town on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, then a "Boomtown USA" suburban city. Recently, and not alone among other aging American Southwest suburbs, it has become an urban center facing cultural, social, and educational challenges, as well as economic decline.
Description
The story of Mesquite, Texas, is a story of an east Dallas County settlement that became first a depot town on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, then a "Boomtown USA" suburban city. Recently, and not alone among other aging American Southwest suburbs, it has become an urban center facing cultural, social, and educational challenges, as well as economic decline.
Details
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of America
  • Publication Date: 7th September 2015
  • State: Texas
  • ISBN: 9781467133579
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
Author Bio
Author Art Greenhaw is a fifth-generation Mesquite resident who coauthored the definitive Mesquite history book, A Stake in the Prairie. He is a Grammy Award-winning and eight-time Grammy Award-nominated producer-arranger-musician. He was schooled at Black Elementary, Agnew Junior High, and Mesquite High School, where he graduated with highest honors. His family's Mesquite mercantile business was the recipient of Baylor University's Family Business of the Year Award. He has seen both the best of Mesquite times (as chronicled by this book's photographs) and the worst of Mesquite times and is optimistic that his home town can once again become a shining city on the hill that personifies the dreams of truth, rugged individualism, old values, and the traditional American Way.
The story of Mesquite, Texas, is a story of an east Dallas County settlement that became first a depot town on the Texas & Pacific Railroad, then a "Boomtown USA" suburban city. Recently, and not alone among other aging American Southwest suburbs, it has become an urban center facing cultural, social, and educational challenges, as well as economic decline.
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of America
  • Publication Date: 7th September 2015
  • State: Texas
  • ISBN: 9781467133579
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
Author Art Greenhaw is a fifth-generation Mesquite resident who coauthored the definitive Mesquite history book, A Stake in the Prairie. He is a Grammy Award-winning and eight-time Grammy Award-nominated producer-arranger-musician. He was schooled at Black Elementary, Agnew Junior High, and Mesquite High School, where he graduated with highest honors. His family's Mesquite mercantile business was the recipient of Baylor University's Family Business of the Year Award. He has seen both the best of Mesquite times (as chronicled by this book's photographs) and the worst of Mesquite times and is optimistic that his home town can once again become a shining city on the hill that personifies the dreams of truth, rugged individualism, old values, and the traditional American Way.