Frankford Stories

Frankford Honored by Dallas Historical Society

Our very own Kathy Power, President, Frankford Preservation Foundation, was honored this November at the Dallas Historical Society’s 43rd Annual Dallas History Makers Awards for Excellence Luncheon for her devotion to the preservation and maintenance of the Frankford Church and surrounding area of the Blackland Prairie. Since 1981, outstanding individuals and organizations are selected for this […]

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Louise Cook Simmons 1925-2015 (from oral history interview)

Louise Cook Simmons grew up near her grandparents, Henry and Opha Jane Needham Cook, northwest of Frankford. In 1846, Louise Simmons’ great-grandfather, Henry Cook, led a caravan from Illinois to Texas at age seventy-five, a task seldom undertaken by any but a younger man. Henry patented land as a Peters Colonist selecting property in two

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