Everything

Every page on the site, by kind. La Réunion was a utopian colony founded in 1855 west of Dallas; the corporate structure failed, the colonists stayed and built early Dallas, and this is a generated browser over the project's research data.

Maps

• The maps

  the seven, largest scale first

• The geology of Texas

  the state by age, the Dallas belt by formation

• Texas, 1850–1900

  county lines at each census and the fifteen largest towns

• Texas counties by population, 1850–2025

  every county shaded by its count, the fifteen most populous ranked

• Dallas city limits, 1855–2022

  the annexation ordinances, including the three that took in the colony land

• The two towns of 1855

  Dallas and La Réunion from the point halfway between them

• The colony lands

  the 1858 holdings and their afterlife, in four chapters

• The colony on its terrain

  survey grants, present-day streets and buildings, five-foot contours

• The map room

  the historical sheets as documents, with what each one fed

People

• The people

  314 identified colonists

• The roster

  all of them by surname, with sources; 41 with a full bio

• The cast

  the same people by importance, in four tiers

• The families

  124 people across 2 family trees

• The 1860 census

  276 people: the Réunion pages and every colonist household in the county

• The ships

  the four immigrant voyages of 1855, manifests transcribed with scans

• Positions held

  89 offices, war service and memberships, by era

• The war

  what everyone did, 1861–1865, read against the witnesses

Land

• The land

  30 transactions, 11 in the 1859 tax roll, 29 entries in the 1867 town register

• The deed register

  every transaction, with scans

Time

• The timeline

  the dated events of the colony with their witnesses

• The resolved timeline

  the full file: conventions, press, cemetery and property layers

Sources

• The sources

  the witnesses, ranked on stratum, centrality, uniqueness and reliability

• The bibliography

  the core documents, with citations, annotations and where the project holds them

• The texts

  the participants' own books and articles, transcribed and translated

History

• The history

  the case, in the order to read it

• The Company Behind the Company

  The colony as a corporation: the parent/subsidiary split, the capital ledger, and the 1855 cession that mattered

• Findings

  What the project claims that no single source does — each one the product of two independent records set against each other

Extra

• What Ifs

  Counterfactuals, each pinned to something the record actually says happened

• The Other Myth

  Unattested, off the record, filed here anyway

• Fourierism

  The doctrine the colony was built on, and how much of it survived the crossing