The Beginning – In the year 1839, John Neely Bryan, who was a Presbyterian farmer, merchant, lawyer and founder of Dallas City, came to the Three Forks area of ​​Trinity to find a potential location mail exchange serving Indians and settlers. The criteria for this survey were location close to the Preston Trail (Tim nguon va giai thich cho cai nay) and easiest to cross Trinity. After all, Arkansas was the chosen location for his business. However, half of his clients (Indians) when he returned to the place in 1841 had left due to a treaty that called for the expulsion of all Indians from North Texas. As a result, the idea of ​​a permanent community was substituted for the concept of a trading post. Inviting the people who had settled at Bird's Fort, 22 miles away to the northwest, to come and take up residence in the city he proposed. The name Dallas was called from that time when Bryan became the leader of the community. The city grew rapidly and became part of the state of Texas with the arrival of the first doctors and lawyers in 1845. The Trinity River was a tremendous resource for sustaining life and settlement along the river's banks. Later in the century several new water resources were also dug such as Lewisville Lake, Benbrook Lake, Lavon Lake, Joe Pool Lake, etc... Being adjacent to the Trinity River, an infrastructure system was built with bridges over the river and canals within the site as a significant aspect of the city. Flood of 1908 – The significance of the river running through the city was clearly understood in 1908 after a historic river flood. In May, the Trinity River recorded a flow of 52.6 feet after three days of rain. According to the report, eleven people were killed in this period and 4... in the middle of the paper... a level sufficient to prevent the flood but not the largest of floods. Until 1926 the levee system was extended from the new Dallas County Levee Improvement District No. 10 into the confluence of the Elm Fork and West Fork downstream from the Santa Fe Railroad. Original Construction of Dallas Floodways: The state's largest project and the country's second largest levee construction and improvement in June 1928. The total cost of the project reached approximately $14,000,000. This project extended the flood protection system to 20 districts, reclaiming more than 7,318 land arches on the western bank and 3,333 land arches on the eastern bank. As the project expanded, additional industrial land on the east site and other civic improvements were also created. The plan also included the arrangement of the systems, infrastructures, uses of the land, etc... CitedStudent Works