Donkeys for Sale near Shady Shores, TX

About Shady Shores, TX

There was a Shady Shores Independent School in 1912. In the mid-1920s, John William Franck, a Dallas contractor, built a fishing camp with about ten wood-shingle cabins on the northern shores of Lake Dallas. He had this in mind as a weekend retreat for Dallas residents. In the 1930s, many of the fishing camps were torn down and replaced by permanent homes, a number of which are still standing. The community thrived, and in 1932, a nearby subdivision called Shady Shores began construction.