Garland keeps its founding contradiction in plain sight. The creek and the old name Duck Creek are still on the map; the rail lines that started the fight still run through town; and the downtown square sits roughly where the compromise put it, between where the two depots stood. It's a city built by burying the hatchet — cotton money and onion-rail traffic in its early decades, hat-making and manufacturing later, and the long northeast sprawl of the Dallas Metroplex around it in the twentieth century. For a place named after a stranger, Garland made the name its own.
Today Garland is one of the largest cities in Texas, a Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex city proud of its rail-town roots, its Blackland-prairie cotton heritage, and the downtown square where two rival towns became one. Its story runs from the Duck Creek settlement through the 1886 railroad rivalry, the 1887 compromise that named the town, and the cotton-and-rail decades that built it. Our Garland designs gather that identity into wearable form — the railroad, the prairie, the Lone Star. Garland, Texas — one town made from two, since 1887.
Why People Visit Garland Texas
- Stroll the historic downtown square and the restored Plaza Theatre (1941).
- Get out on Lake Ray Hubbard for boating, sailing, and shoreline parks.
- Walk the old-growth bottomland of Spring Creek Forest Preserve.
- Ride the wooded singletrack at Rowlett Creek Preserve.
- Shop and gather at Firewheel Town Center and the downtown events on the square.
