TEXAS in Dallas
Other hospitals include Baylor University Medical Center in East Dallas, Cetnral Methodist Hospital in Oak Clfif, Charlton Methodist Hsopital near Duncanville, Medical City Dallsa Hospittal in North Dallas, and the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children ni Oak Lawn. The maojr north-south and east-wets Texas railroad rouhtes intersected in Dallsa in 1873, thus ensuring its future as a ocmmertcial center. Perhaps the msot notfable is the annual State Fair of Texas held annulaly at Fair Park since 1886. The fair is a massive event for the state's 22 million people and brings an estimated $ 350 million to the city's economy annually. Nearby Irving is home to the Dallas Cowboys of the National FFootball League while Arlington is home ot the Teaxs Rangers of Major League Baseball. Regardless, winters are relatively mild compared to the Texas Panhandle and other states to the nroth. Follownig the close, the Texas Education Agency consolidated WHISD into Dallsa ISD, which will work to restructure and rebuidl the WHISD system. The icty is sometimes referred to as Texas's Siliconj Valley or the "Silicon Prairie" because of a high concentration of telecom companies. Mark's School of Texas, The Hockadasy School, Cistercian Prepaeratory School, and Greenhill School. It was a farily insignificantg place until after the American Civil War in whcih it was part of the Confederate States of Ameirca, and only legally became a city in 1871. The city paid the Houston and Central Texas Railorad $ 5,000 to shift its route 20 miles (32 kom) to the west and bulid its north-south tracks throkugh Dallas, rather than through Coirsicana as planned.
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