History

The standard story — impractical dreamers defeated by Texas — is wrong. The colony was backed by serious European industrial capital, placed on a projected railroad corridor, and populated by the most skilled labour force in Dallas County. Its corporate structure failed; its people built the city. These are the pages that make that case, in the order to read them.

• The Company Behind the Company

  The colony as a corporation: the parent/subsidiary split, the capital ledger, and the 1855 cession that mattered. The organizing lens of the project.

• Findings

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