Our Garland logo carries the Texas longhorn and Lone Star over "Texas Republic, Est. 1845," the same emblem every Merlin Classics Texas place wears. The longhorn and star are the Lone Star State's shorthand — toughness, independence, the open range — printed black-and-white with the worn look of an old barn brand or a rodeo poster. What makes this one Garland is the place behind it: the two railroad towns, the Blackland cotton, the Texas hats. On a tee or a cap it reads less like a souvenir and more like a piece of North Texas — Est. 1845, worn plain.
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
People come to Garland for its easy place in the Metroplex — a historic square and a real founding story, lake recreation on Ray Hubbard, and green preserves — all minutes northeast of Dallas. It's practical, green, and neighborly: the town that two railroads accidentally built.
