Peace Circle
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“Peace Circle” interprets the 1843 meeting between Republic of Texas President Sam Houston and 10 American Indian chiefs and captains on the Grape Vine Prairie. The monument features 11 bronze statues standing 1.25 percent larger than life size. The Peace Circle meeting later led to the Treaty at Bird’s Fort signing on September 29, 1843.

Website
https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/grapevine-main/peace-circle/
Address
815 S Main Street, Grapevine, Texas 76051
76051
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Pioneer Park Cemetery consists of graveyards containing the remains of several of the Dallas’ earliest founders, including mayors, business leaders and heroes of the Texas revolution. Located in the Dallas’ Convention Center District and east of Pioneer Plaza, the cemetery dates to the 1850s and remained in use until the 1920s.

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Address
1201 Marilla Street, Dallas, Texas 75201
75201
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Created in 1994, Pioneer Plaza is the largest public open space in the Dallas central business district. The park is home to the Cattle Drive Through Dallas sculpture. The giant bronze sculpture commemorates (as its name suggests) a cattle drive through the city.

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Address
1428 Young Street, Dallas, Texas 75202
75202
Reunion Tower
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The 561-foot-tall Reunion Tower is one of the recognizable landmarks in Dallas. Part of the Hyatt Regency Hotel complex, Reunion Tower is the 15th tallest building in Dallas and located about 1,000 feet from Dealey Plaza where President John F. Kennedy was killed in 1963. Known locally as “The Ball,” the tower was completed on Feb. 2, 1978.

Website
http://www.reuniontower.com
Phone Number
(214) 712-7040
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Address
300 Reunion Blvd. E, Dallas, TX 75207
75207
Ruth Paine House Museum
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The Ruth Paine House Museum opened on November 6, 2013. The city of Irving purchased Ruth Paine’s small suburban home in 2009 to preserve the home’s history surrounding the tragedy. Half a century later, the historic home was restored to its 1963 look and transformed into a multimedia museum to interpret what happened in November 1963. On November 21, 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald went to the house for an overnight visit with his wife and kids, who had been living with Paine. This was unusual as Oswald usually visited on the weekends. Video images projected onto glass panes depict actors re-creating certain moments, such as when Paine was shocked to hear Marina tell a police officer that her husband owned a gun. Paine lived in the house until 1966 and now resides in California.

Website
https://www.irvingarchivesandmuseum.com/ruth-paine-house-museum
Phone Number
(972) 721-4754
Address
801 W Irving Blvd, Irving, TX 75060
75060
Settlement to City Museums
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The Settlement to City Museums is a collection of four museums that tell the story of Grapevine. They are the Keeling House Museum, the Donald Schoolhouse, the Cotton Ginners Museum and the Grapevine Historical Museum located in the Grapevine Ice House.

Website
https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/things-to-do/museums-historic-sites/settlement-to-city-museums/
Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park
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Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park is famous as the final resting place of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who allegedly killed President John F. Kennedy. Oswald, 24 years old at the time of his death, ended up here because no other funeral home wanted his body. Within months of his burial, thousands of visitors stopped by his grave to catch a glimpse of the final resting place of the alleged presidential assassin.

Address
7301 E Lancaster Ave, Fort Worth, TX 76112
76112
The Sixth Floor Museum
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Originally opened in 1989, the museum, tells not only the story of Kennedy’s assassination and the aftermath of his death, but puts into context Kennedy’s visit to Dallas, which was in essence the first stop of his 1964 re-election campaign. The most powerful scene in the museum is arguably the reconstructed sniper’s perch. According to the Warren Commission, Oswald organized boxes containing schoolbooks into the perch; the museum based its reconstruction on photographs taken on Nov. 22, 1963.

Website
http://www.jfk.org
Phone Number
(214) 747-6660
Address
411 Elm Street, Dallas, Texas 75202
75202
Western Heights Cemetery
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Western Heights Cemetery, initially known as Troth, features burials dating back to the 1850s, though the cemetery was formally dedicated in 1881. In 1881, Z.E. Coombes and W.R. Fisher set aside land for a “graveyard forever.” Notable pioneers interred here include W.R. Fisher, Z.E. Coombes, John and Bosina Loupout, Mary Ellen Cole Tuggle, and Heinrich and Anna Struck. The cemetery is also the final resting place for veterans of the Civil War and both World Wars I and II, as well as Clyde and Buck Barrow.

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Address
1617 Fort Worth Ave, Dallas, Texas 75208
75208