Names of Streets - Like Zacha Drive by Reinhardt

Lingo Lane was named after the lumber yard where Frank Cheshire bought his lumber to build the houses in our neighborhood in Casa View. Casa View was a natural extension of another suburb called Casa Linda – “beautiful house.” Casa View -- “we’re a house with a view.” Beautiful Hispanic-named streets in our neighborhood – Estacado, San Leandro, San Marcus, San Pedro, Cayuga, Aleda, Pasdemona, Castolon, San Paula, San Marcus, Montalba. Hartline – for the Hart family who has been in the neighborhood since the 1870s. Gus Thomasson was the District Administrator for the WPA administration in the 1930s. Robert T. Hill was a geologist who did the Dallas County geology survey in the late 1920s. George W. Truett, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas for 47 years. He’s the namesake for the Truett building at FBC, and the Truett building at Baylor. Lawther Drive follows partway around White Rock Lake. Named for the former Dallas Mayor Joe E. Lawther from the 1920s who helped develop White Rock Lake. Zacha Drive. – Zachas were a prominent east Dallas family. Barnes Bridge Road – named for a toll bridge across the east fork of the Trinity River. Buckner Blvd. – R.C. Buckner was the founder of Buckner’s Orphan Home over a 100 years ago. W.H. Gaston – fought in the Civil War and was Mayor of East Dallas before it was annexed to Dallas. Thale – Sounds like some desperate aging small town in a Larry McMurtry novel. Favola – another bad name.