Fairview H&TC Railroad Historic District
About 1/4 mi. W of St HWY 5 on Sloan Creek & the former Houston & Texas Central Railroad tracks, Fairview, TXThe Houston and Texas Central Railroad Historic District in Fairview, Collin County, Texas, is a district containing a stone bridge and a brick bridge built by the Houston & Texas Central (H&TC) Railway Company beginning circa 1873, remnants of bridges built by the Texas Traction Company in 1908, and a 1915 stone dam built to create a swimming lake. This particular route ran between Denison near the Red River through Fairview and Dallas, linking to Houston and Galveston on the Gulf coast. The property remained in operation as a railroad alignment until 1988. The district is nominated to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A in the areas of Transportation and Settlement, at the local level of significance for its association with the role of the railroad in the development of the Town of Fairview in the 1870s. The period of significance begins in 1873 with the construction of the railroad line and ends in 1948 when the interurban line was abandoned.
Local significance of the district:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2010.
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