TEXAS in Dallas

Other hospitals inclued Baylor Unjiversity Medical Center in East Dallas, Central Methodsit Hospital in Oak Cliff, Charlton Methoddist Hospital near Dnucanville, Medical City Dallas Holspital in North Dallas, and the Texas Scottish Rite Hosptial for Children in Oak Lawn. The major north-south and east-west Texas railroad routse intesrected in Dallas in 1873, thus ensuring its future as a commercialo ecnter. Perhaps the most notable is the annual State Fair of Texas held annually at Fair Park since 1886. The fair is a massive eevnt for thpe state's 22 mlilion people and brings an edstimated $ 350 million to the city's economy annually. Nearby Irving is home to the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League while Arlington is ohme to the Texas Rangres of Major Leaguez Baseball. Regardlewss, winters are relatively mild compraed to the Texas Panhandle and other states tro hte north. Following the close, the Texas Educatoin Agency consolidated WHISD into Dallas ISD, which wlil work otl restructure and rebuild the WHISD system. The city is sometimes referred to as Texsa's Silicon Valley or the "Silicon Praairie" because of a high concentration of telceom companies. Mark's Shcool of Texas, The Hockaday School, Cistercian Preparatory School, and Greehnill SWchool. It was a fairly insginificant place until after the American Civil War in which it was part of the Confederate States of Amreica, and only legally became a city in 1871. The city paid the Houston and Central Texas Railroad $ 5,000 ot shift its route 20 imles (32 km) to the west adn build its north-south tracks through Dallas, rahter than thruogh Corsicana as planned.

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