Hundreds of years ago, Native Americans and buffalo formed the wide Shawnee Trail that ran from southwestern Texas past Austin, Waco, and Dallas, eventually crossing the Red River, then through Oklahoma and on to Kansas and Missouri. At Dallas, the trail cut a wide swath in the vicinity of present-day Preston Road, making it the oldest north south road in North Central Texas. Native Americans, and later pioneers, would stop at this stream (called Hall’s Branch or Indian Springs) to find water as they traveled along the trail.
During a drought in the 1930s, someone covered Indian Springs with a concrete “cap” to provide pressure for the more-accessible Keller Springs to the south. The cap was later removed.
