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White Lake is another water attraction in Dallas. The lake and the adjacent park are a popular place among rowers, cyclists, skateboarders and other vacationers. On the shores of the lake is also a 66-acre (270 thousand m2) Dallas Arboretum and Botanical Garden.

In 1930, 160 km east of Dallas, oil was discovered and the city quickly became the center of the Texas and Oklahoma oil industries. In 1958, in Dallas, Jack Kilby, a Texas Instruments employee, invented the chip. When the oil industry largely shifted to Houston by the 1980s, Dallas was shifting to a booming technology boom (caused by the growth of the information and telecommunications industries), while remaining the center of the banking system and business. In the 1990s, Dallas became known as Texas Silicon Valley, or Silicon Prairie.

It soon became a center of trade in cotton, grain and bison. With the beginning of the XX century, Dallas has transformed from an agricultural center into a center of concentration of banks, insurance companies and other business structures.

In 1930, oil was discovered 160 km east of Dallas and the city quickly became the center of the Texas and Oklahoma oil industry. In 1958, in Dallas, Jack Kilby, a Texas Instruments employee, invented the chip. When the oil industry largely shifted to Houston by the 1980s, Dallas was shifting to a booming technology boom (caused by the growth of the information and telecommunications industries), while remaining the center of the banking system and business. In the 1990s, Dallas became known as Texas Silicon Valley, or Silicon Prairie.

In 1855, a group of European artists and musicians founded a utopian commune west of Dallas called La Reunion. When the commune ceased to exist, most people moved to Dallas, where they founded an art district that still exists in the Deep Ellum area near downtown. In modern Dallas, there are strong theatrical traditions, this applies to both classical and experimental repertoire. Also, in Dallas there is an active music scene and various concerts - a common phenomenon in all parts of the city.

Together with Fort Worth and other agglomeration cities (Arlington, Garland, Denton, Irving, Mesquite, and Plain), Dallas forms the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolis. The population is 1,197,816 people (2010 [1]). It is the 3rd largest city in Texas and the 9th in the United States; The Dallas-Fort Worth megalopolis itself is the 4th largest in the United States (7 million people).