An overhead view of a portion of Little Egypt in the 1950s
Little Egypt, the post-Civil War Black community near Northlake Shopping Center, is finally getting a historic land marker.
The Dallas Park and Recreation Board is celebrating the unveiling of the marker with a ceremony May 20. The ribbon-cutting will commemorate the establishment of the community in 1883.
Getting the marker for the land has been in the works for years, as the Advocate has documented in previous reporting. Two Richland College professors, Clive Siegle and Tim Sullivan, took on the excavation project of the site in 2015 in a Lake Highlands parking lot.
Through a history course, the professors and students collected all the information and history they could. Turns out the community was also one of Dallas’ original freedmen’s towns.
The historic marker unveiling will take place at noon at the Paul D. Dyer Administration Building, 10031 E. Northwest Highway (the former Army reserve center) on May 20.
