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| Bishop Park, Justin |
What I didn’t know about this town would fit in
a boot. Back before the settlers arrived, this fertile land was home to Native
Americans, specifically the Navajo. Conflict between these people and the
settlers arose in about 1841, resulting in the Battle of Village
Creek. About seven years later, French utopian socialists established an Icarian
community at the juncture of Denton and Oliver Creeks. They were given several
thousand acres by the Peters
Colony, but conflict with Peters and unforgiving conditions brought on by
Texas weather caused the 70 or so settlers to abandon the area within two
years.
