He knew one person who had lived in that neighborhood longer than anyone else and went to see him. He began wondering what used to be there before the shopping center. One day, while mowing his lawn and casually looking up the slope toward the shopping center, he noticed a difference between the curb and the streets around the shopping center and the rest of the neighborhood. As long as he could remember, the property near his home had been a shopping center. For eighty years, little Egypt existed, and then, in a single day in 1962, this community of about 200 people (many of whom were related) completely disappeared, seemingly leaving behind no trace of its existence.Ĭlive Siegle, a history professor at Richland College, lives only a few doors west of where Little Egypt once stood, but, until recently, he had no idea that it had ever been there. Once, not so long ago, there was a black community, Little Egypt, which was founded by a former slave on thirty acres along Northwest Highway in what is now the Lake Highlands neighborhood of Dallas.
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Our story begins, like all good mysteries, with a series of seemingly unrelated facts, events, and people: a street curb, two professors, a shopping center, a phone book, and a chance encounter at a library. The article was originally published in the Dallas County Chronicle, Volume 17, Issue 4, Fall 2018. The following article is reprinted with permission from the Dallas County Historical Commission.
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