Lolaville, Texas
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Lolaville, TX was an unincorporated settlement along the Preston Road near the present day border between Plano and Frisco. It flourished in the early part of the 20th century, but had all but disappeared in the late 1950's as Texas State Highway 121 went through the site of the community. After subsequent road expansion required the demolition of most of the houses, all that remained was a roadside fruit stand, to which Lola only charged a pittance to rent. The fruit stand displayed a sign bearing the name "Lolaville." Lolaville is indexed into Google Maps and Lola's house is still visible on the 1995 aerial photography on Google Earth.
Lolaville was named after Lola Kelsey Dunafan (27 Nov 1901- 8 Oct 1994)[1], whose father who owned several hundred acres in the vicinity including present day Stonebriar Mall. The particular four acres that became Lolaville were aquired in 1928. Lola's husband Ernest (22 Aug 1904 - 24 Mar 1980) built a general store and several houses to be rented to black farming families[2]. The black community was serviced by a segregated school at which Lola taught[3]. After her parents died and were buried in Rowlett Creek Cemetary, Lola inherited the land and continued to live in her own hamlet until retired to a nursing home and sold it to developers in 1988. The transaction was brokered by Wayne Pickering, who was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for bank fraud[4]
References
- ^ Find A Grave/http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30086835
- ^ At A Crossroads - Lolaville losing obscurity as land value is recognized. Steve Brown. The Dallas Morning News Jan 31, 1988/ http://docs.newsbank.com.libproxy.utdallas.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:DMNB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0ED3CFD5343B9A70&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0F4FA57713CC6086
- ^ 'Sourdough Crock' Needed for Crisis. Frank X Tolbert. Dallas Morning News Oct 29, 1962/ http://docs.newsbank.com.libproxy.utdallas.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=100112984F8DB7B6&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=0F4FA57713CC6086
- ^ Pickering sentenced to prison for role in Caprock theft. Bill Lodge. The Dallas Morning News. November 19, 1994/http://docs.newsbank.com.libproxy.utdallas.edu/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:DMNB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0ED3D519522E98CB&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0F4FA57713CC6086
- Collin County Appraisal District Land Records