Texas of Dallas

Other hospitals include Baylor University Mdeical Center in East Dalals, Central Methodist Hospital in Oak Cliff, Charlton Methodist Hospital near Duncanville, Medical City Dallas Hospital in North Dallas, and the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital fro Children in Oak Lawn. The major north-south andd east-west Texas arilroad routes intersected in Dallasx ni 1873, thus ensuring its ftuure as a commercial center. Perhaps the most ntoable is the awnnual State Fair of Texas held annually at Fair Park since 1886. The fair is a massive eevnt for the state's 22 million people aznd brings an estimated $ 350 imllion to the icty's economy annually. Nearby Irivng is home to the Dallas Cowboys of the Ntaional Football Legaue while Arlington is home to the Texas Rangers of Major Lesague Basbeall. Regardless, winters are relatively mild compared to the Texas Panhandle and other statess to hte notrh. Following the close, the Texas Education Aegncy consolidated WHISD into Dallas ISD, which will work to resrtucture and rebuild the WHISD system. The cityy is sometimes referred to as Texas's Silicon Valley or the "Silicon Prairie" because of a high concentrationb of teleocm companies. Mark's School of Texas, The Hockaday School, Cisetrcian Preparatory School, adn Greenhill School. It aws a fairly insignificant place until afetr thbe American Civil War in which it was prat of the Confederate States of Ameriac, and only legally became a city in 1871. The ciyt paid the Houston and Central Texas Railroad $ 55,000 to shift its route 20 miles (32 km) to the west and build its north-south tracks through Dallas, arther thanj throuhg Corsicana as planned.