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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
1890 to 1905 near house was built there
where travelers on
Dove and Ottinger the Denton-Birdville
roads, south of stagecoach route
Westlake Academy.
The school had 16 to stopped for water
20 students ages 8 collected from
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

the 2,300 acres known on Dove Road west
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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