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Section 1 Executive
                                                                                        Community Profile

               HISTORICAL MARKERS IN WESTLAKE

                       SHOCKEY- HUFFMAN HOMESTEAD &  FAMILY FARM
               This homestead is now occupied by Solana Village Plaza and was
               established by Isaac Shockey in 1885.  The homestead consisted of
                                                                                                 STAR
               multiple wood- frame buildings and a well.  This marker stands off
                                                                                         STAGECOACH ROUTE
                            Solana Blvd near Village Center Plaza.
                                                                                          The site of an1850s
                                                                                         log cabin on Denton
                                                                                           Highway south of
               POSSUM TROT SCHOOL                                                          Stagecoach Hills
                This was a one-room                                                      Airpark.  Later a rock
                 school house from                                                       house was built there
                 1890 to 1905 near
                                                                                          where travelers on
                Dove and Ottinger
                                                                                          the Denton- Birdville
                  roads,  south of
                                                                                          stagecoach route
                Westlake Academy.
                                                                                          stopped for water
                The school had 16 to
                                                                                            collected from
                 20 students ages 8
                  through 13.  This                                                         nearby springs.
                marker stands at the
                southwest corner of
                 North Pearson and
                    Dove Road.                    TERRA BELLA HOMESTEAD
                                                  This site is on Dove Road,
                                                  purchased by Ed Noack
                                                  in 1965, which became
                                                 Terra Bella Estates in 2007.





                THE CIRCLE T RANCH                                                           THRASHER
               Off State Highway 114,                                                      FAMILY HOME
                                                                                        on Dove Road west
               the 2,300 acres known
                                                                                       of Precinct Line Road,
               as Circle T Ranch was
                                                                                        home of Henry and
               purchased by J. Glenn
                                                                                        Beulah Thrasher on a
               Turner in the 1940s and                                                 40-acre tract bought
                       1950s.                                                                 in 1938.








                                                                            PAIGEBROOKE FARM
                                                               Off Dove Road near Ottinger Road is the site of
                                                               the Dealey Home designed by Charles Dilbeck
                                                                         and built in the late 1930s.






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