Kleberg

Kleberg's name changed more often than its people did. The Handbook of Texas says the post office opened in 1882 as Kleburgh, became Kleburg in 1887 and took the present spelling in 1929. Robert Kleberg held the 1845 land grant but never lived on it, and he sold it after squatters stripped its timber. A newspaper, the Kleburg Pigmy, was running by 1890. A fire destroyed the downtown in 1920. When Dallas absorbed the town in 1978 it was the largest in Texas without a property tax.

What the plaque says

Kleberg The town of Kleberg began in 1850 on the land grant of Robert Justus Kleberg (1803 - 1888), veteran of the Republic of Texas Army and a participant in the Battle of San Jacinto. Originally a stage stop where two wagon trails crossed, Kleberg grew into a farming community. After the railroad came in 1881, the town boasted a post office, bank, and a number of retail businesses. The construction of a series of dams and locks on the Trinity River provided jobs in the early 1900s, but a 1908 flood destroyed the work. Incorporated in 1956, Kleberg was annexed by Dallas in 1978. (1988)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fair Park — 11 mi
  The State Fair of Texas grounds since 1886, where the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition left one of the country's greatest concentrations of Art Deco exposition buildings.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 11 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 12 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• Dallas Museum of Art — 13 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.

More markers nearby

• Rylie Prairie — 2.1 mi
• Lee Cemetery — 3.4 mi
• Dawdy's Ferry — 5.4 mi
• Pleasant Grove Christian Church — 5.5 mi