Flag Pole Hill

As told to Keri Mitchell by Sally Rodriguez, Dallas Park and Recreation Department’s historian. Photos are courtesy of the Dallas Municipal Archives and curated by Rodriguez. She authored the book “White Rock Lake,” available at area bookstores and through arcadiapublishing.com.

More than 400 acres for the northern area of White Rock Lake was acquired from Church Goforth, including the land now known as Flag Pole Hill. The area was originally named Doran’s Point Overlook. The point can be seen just across Northwest Highway, on the upper left of the picture. Today the point’s edge is marked by trees and not water. The roadway that goes up and around Flag Pole Hill is Doran Circle. William Doran was a city commissioner responsible for negotiating with all of the landowners to acquire the land for White Rock Lake. Because of its elevation, Flag Pole Hill was an excellent location for radio towers that can be seen in the foreground. The building closest to the towers was utilized by WRR and today is our reservation office. The southern extension of White Rock Trail has not been built through the park. The road going across the lower right hand corner is now Lanshire, but was originally Mockingbird Lane. Prior to the Mockingbird bridge over the lake, Mockingbird flowed directly into what is now West Lawther, and if you continue north of Northwest Highway, the road turns and flows into what is now Lanshire.

Now Mockingbird goes across and White Rock Trail has been built. This picture is prior to the dredging that created Mockingbird Point where the dog park is now. They dredged in the late ’60s and early ’70s. I had an argument with someone who was telling me about the 200-year-old pecan tree on Mockingbird Point and I said, “That’s kind of impossible because the land did not exist.”

Late 1950s

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Branding A Neighborhood

How Gastonwood/Coronado Hills became Lakewood Hills

“Where do you live?” It’s usually the first question in a casual conversation between Dallasites who are getting acquainted. And the answer, most often, is not a street name or a landmark, but the name of a neighborhood. So what happens if you live in an unfamiliar neighborhood? That was the problem for Gastwonwood/Coronado Hills, a small neighborhood of roughly 550 homes on four streets south of Gaston and mostly west of East Grand — Clayton, Casa Loma, Coronado and La Vista. “What kept coming up is, we have an identity crisis. Nobody knows who we are and where we are,” says neighborhood association president Stewart Cockrell. “Some people call us the C Streets, and nobody knew our real name.” Gastonwood/Coronado Hills had been the official name since the neighborhood association formed in 1981, and was a conflation of a couple smaller neighborhoods that came together, Cockrell says. But nearly 30 years later, the name was still not commonly known — plus, Gastonwood/Coronado Hills doesn’t easily fit on a street sign topper. Referring to “the C Streets” began in the ’80s as a response to Realtors who began trying to distinguish streets in Greenland Hills by calling them “the M Streets,” says Jeanette Crumpler, who has lived in her home on La Vista since 1960. “The Realtors who were pushing buying in this area said, ‘No, you want to buy on the C Streets,’ ” Crumpler says. To quell the name confusion, the board decided to take a vote, and sent surveys out to residents with three choices: Lakewood Hills, Coronado Hills or keep it Gastonwood/ Coronado Hills. The winner was Lakewood Hills. That was two years ago, and in the time since, the neighborhood association has added Lakewood Hills street sign toppers as well as sculptural monuments at three of the main entrances. The neighborhood utilized its own talents for the designs — noted sculptor David Hickman, who lives on Coronado, created the monuments, and graphic designer Walter Soza, a La Vista resident, fashioned the sign toppers. The signage has enhanced neighborhood pride quite a bit, Cockrell says, and the new name is starting to catch on. “The feedback I’ve heard from the real estate agents in our area has been pretty fantastic in terms of being able to sell,” Cockrell says. “I guess it’s just about branding.”

—Keri Mitchell

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