Special Features

• Take a look at a genuine Houston & Texas Central Railway $1,000 Gold Bond, issued in 1873 (the year that Richardson was founded) and signed in ink by the city's namesake, H&TC Secretary A. S. (Alfred Stephen) Richardson.

• View a transcript of the document that's considered Richardson's birth certificate The H&TC "Dedication Deed", filed for record in Dallas County on June 26, 1873.

• View the above-named item as it appears in Dallas County, Texas Deed Book U, Page 216 and Page 217.

• View the deeds in which George Blewett, Bernard Reilly and William J. Wheeler sold land to the H&TC trustees that became the railroad right-of-way and the town of Richardson, as seen in Dallas County, Texas Deed Books.

• Bernard Reilly to H&TC Trustees, right-of-way, Dallas County, Texas Deed Book S, p.627

• George Blewett to H&TC Trustees, right-of-way, Dallas County, Texas Deed Book S, p.628

• William J. Wheeler to H&TC Trustees, right-of-way, Dallas County, Texas Deed Book S, p.629

• Bernard Reilly, 71 acres for townsite, Dallas County, Texas Deed Book S, p.630

• William J. Wheeler to H&TC Trustees, 20 acres for townsite, Dallas County, Texas Deed Book, p.631 and p.632

• Examine an 1873 Map or Plan of Richardson, drawn by Theodore Kosse, Civil Engineer, in Dallas County, Texas Map Book 3, p.521,

• Examine an 1878 Map or Plan of Richardson, drawn by Theodore Kosse, Civil Engineer, in Dallas County, Texas Map Book 3, p.529.

• View the correction deed for Bernard Reilly to H&TC Trustees, explaining how and why the above-referenced maps show 121 acres rather than the 101 acres actually purchased, in Dallas County, Texas Deed Book 61, p. 314 and p.315.