On January 28, 1857, La Reunion was officially dissolved. The colony was plagued with ineffective leadership and disorganization, not to mention financial insolvency.
The limestone soil proved to be a constant frustration for agriculturists. La Reunion had everything working against it. 200 immigrants from France, Belgium, and Switzerland got the project started, and while some of the colonists moved on, there were enough new arrivals to keep La Reunion operating for approximately 18 months, with the population peaking at 350 in late 1856. Settled in 1854 and officially founded the next year to serve as a communal society operating on the socio-economic principles espoused by French philosopher Francois Marie Charles Fourier, the town sat on the Trinity River, three miles west of what used to be the village of Dallas. Small pond, meet big fish.Īll the other towns have pretty much assimilated into Dallas without leaving any trace of their former selves, and that makes the story of La Reunion all the more fascinating to me. As for Dallas, over the past 150 years, it devoured numerous towns and settlements throughout Dallas County, including Jimtown, Scyene, Lisbon, Vickery, Fisher, Letot, Oak Cliff, and what remained of a little French colony known as La Reunion. Richardson encircled the semi-rural village of Buckingham and finally annexed it in 1996. Irving gobbled up the communities of Kit and Sowers, leaving only a cemetery or two as evidence that these towns ever existed. Most towns, however, wound up being devoured by a larger and more successful neighbor. The towns of Embree and Duck Creek joined forces in 1891 and transformed into the single city of Garland, which still endures today as, among other things, the birthplace of yours truly.
In Dallas County, the big'uns ate the small'uns - it was the logical progression of municipal growth.
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