Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 26, May 1998 Page: 6
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Carrollton proceeded from the 1840's to today from farm
and ranch settlements to village to town to city.
William and Mary Larner were probably the ones that deserve
recognition as the first colonists to settle and spend the rest of
their lives in the area later known as Carrollton. They married in Car-
rollton, IL March 30, 1837, sold their property there in 1842
and headed for Texas with their three children. They arrived in 1842
and settled here where two other children were born to them.
Others already named as well as many more unnamed followed
and settled the Carrollton area throughout the 1840's and after.
Another very prominent family (many believed they were the first)
was the A. W. Perry family from Greene Co. Illinois. They settled
in 1844 in the Trinity Mills area of what is now Carrollton.
His headright was patented in Trinity Mills area where he and his
family lived and cultivated the land. In time he accumulated vast land
holdings. Thus he owned most if not all of the land in the original
townsite of Carrollton. He was an original partner with Wade H. Witt
in the mill at Trinity Mills to which settlers from Southeast Denton Co.
as well as Dallas and Collin Co. settlers took their grain to be ground.
Mr. Perry, through years of accumulating much land was
apparently instrumental in granting much of the right of way and a site
for a depot for the Dallas-Wichita Railroad when they made plans to
extend their operations Northward. This was key to the development
of Carrollton.
He also donated land for use of church and schools. He
established a cemetery. He platted at least a half dozen residential6
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Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas. Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 26, May 1998, periodical, May 1998; Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth760602/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carrollton Public Library.