
Hidden History of Plano
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Jeff Campbell is director of the Plano Conservancy for Historic Preservation. He writes about Plano history for Plano magazine and also coauthored Football and Integration in Plano, Texas: Stay in There, Wildcats! (The History Press, 2014) and Plano's Historic Cemeteries (Arcadia Publishing, 2014). Jeff has worked on historic preservation projects in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. He serves on the board of the Texas Chapter of the Association of Gravestone Studies and on the advisory board of Texas Dance Hall Preservation and is a chapter representative for the Forest Fire Lookout Association.
Cheryl Smith is a public services librarian with the Plano Public Library. Through her library work as a genealogy research expert, she has helped make Collin County historic images and documents available for public viewing online and has transcribed many of the handwritten documents, diaries and notes in the Plano Public Library collections, including those of the Plano Volunteer Fire Department and the Thursday Study Club.
Content
- Intro
- Half Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- A Brief History of Plano
- Plano's Oldest Tree
- Henry Cook: War of 1812 Veteran
- Collinwood Cornerstone Mystery
- Mule Capital of the World
- Wells in Downtown Plano
- Death Is a Salesman
- A Lodge and a Museum
- Millinery in Plano
- The Plano Nine Baseball Team
- Death on the Rail
- African American Entrepreneur in Jim Crow Texas
- Silk Hose to Backpacks
- Plano's Iron Lung
- Plano's Fire Bell
- Swim from El Paso to Texarkana
- Pagoda on the Prairie
- Plano's Own Military Tank
- Steindam's Sacrifice in Vietnam
- A Native American in Space
- From Poverty to College Founder
- The Miracle Game of 1977
- Collin Creek's Mall Tunnels
- The Cockroach Hall of Fame Museum
- Downtown Plano Murals
- Butchers' Last Stand
- Famous People from Plano
- The Hidden Hero
- Notes
- About the Authors
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