Pleasant Grove is an area in southeastern Dallas, Texas. It is located in the southeast portion of Dallas less than 15 minutes from Downtown Dallas.
The Pleasant Grove area today consists of several neighborhoods that include Buckner Terrace, Everglade Park, Parkdale, Urbandale, The Piedmont Addition (formerly Piedmont), and Pleasant Mound.
Pleasant Grove is one of Dallas's most diverse ethnic and socioeconomic areas.[1] Housing prices have appreciated in the area in part because of new real estate and economic developments, such as Eastfield College Pleasant Grove Campus.[2][3]
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The boundaries of Pleasant Grove are well documented by the Dallas Public Library Sam Street's Map of Dallas County, Texas.[4] and a 1941 road map of Dallas County, Texas, by the Dallas County Engineering Department.[5]
Lisa C. Maxwell gives the history of Pleasant Grove in "The Handbook of Texas":
"The center of old Pleasant Grove was at Lake June Road and Buckner Boulevard, but the area now considered Pleasant Grove includes portions of Pleasant Mound, Urbandale, Parkdale, and Piedmont. The first settlers in the Pleasant Grove area in the 1840s included W. B. Elam, who held the original land grant, Richard Bruton, and Cornelius Cox. By 1875 a wooden building was used as a union church and school. An early teacher at one of the schools built in the 1880s was Don Lebow, who named the school Pleasant Grove after its location in a grove of cottonwood trees. The name was then applied to both the school and the community. In 1900 Sam Street's map of Dallas County showed Pleasant Grove as a small community with a store. In 1916 the first brick schoolhouse was built."[6]
Pleasant Grove is a 15 minute drive from White Rock Lake and less than a 20 minute drive to Lake Ray Hubbard.
High Schools
Adelfa Callejo Elementary School will open in Pleasant Grove in 2012, and Thelma Elizabeth Page Richardson Elementary School will open in Pleasant Grove in 2013.[7]
Ann Richards Middle School will open in Pleasant Grove in 2012.[7]
The Pleasant Grove area is served by three public libraries. [8]
A freight line runs through the northern edge of Pleasant Grove, as does another along the edge of the Trinity Forest and US 175. The DART Green Line runs parallel to this line.
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