Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park

Dallas Heritage Village stands on land that Lucy Jane Browder and her sons bought in the late 1840s, beside a freshwater spring. In 1871 Dallas's representative attached a rider to the Texas and Pacific Railway's right-of-way bill requiring it to cross the Houston and Texas Central tracks within a mile of Browder's Spring, not fifty miles south of the town. The city bought land around the spring between 1876 and 1885 and made its first public park there. In 1888 the park got two deer and two mountain lions, the start of the city's first zoo.

The museum grew from a rescue in 1967. Women who wanted to save Millermore, a Greek Revival mansion in the neighborhood around the park, had it taken apart and rebuilt in City Park. William Brown Miller, for whom it is named, was one of Dallas County's most successful cotton planters and a slaveholder, and the Dallas Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation project says his fortune and his house were built by slavery.

Buildings dated 1840 to 1910 have been moved here from around North Texas, among them a dog-run house, a shotgun house, a church, a country school, a depot and a general store. Printing and pottery are demonstrated. The park took its present name in 2005. Check the museum's website for current hours and ticket prices.