The roughly thirty-five acre neighborhood was located within Dallas city limits, north of Northwest Highway.
[1] Professors Clive Siegle and Tim Sullivan of Richland College led a project to discover what happened to the families after they left Little Egypt.
[5] Jeff and Hanna Hill, the former slaves receiving the land, were released from chattel slavery when the Emancipation Proclamation was read out in Galveston on June 19, 1865.
[1][8] In 1962, a consortium that wanted to build a shopping center on the land paid residents cash for their ramshackle homes.
[8] Sarah Robinson, a trustee of the Little Egypt Baptist Church, advised residents to sell their homes in order to get a better deal than if they held on until they were forced out.