Editing Rockwall, Texas (section)

==History==
The association of [[Paleo-Indian]] [[Artifact (archaeology)|artifact]]s with extinct [[Pleistocene]] [[mammal]] remains in various [[archeological site]]s within the Texas Prairie-Savannah Region of eastern North Central Texas, including a site in Collin County, and [[Clovis culture|Clovis points]] recovered from the Brushy Creek Clovis Site in Hunt County demonstrates that the Rockwall region was occupied by prehistoric [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native American]] cultures at least as far back as 13,500 to 13,000 years ago.<ref name="CrookOthers2009a">Crook, W.W. III, M.D. Hughston and J.L. McCraw, 2009, ''The Brushy Creek Clovis Site (41HU74): An Early Paleoindian Occupation in Hunt County, Texas.'' The Record, Dallas Archeological Society 56(1):1-18.</ref><ref name="CrookOthers2011a">Crook, W. W., III, 2011, ''A Possible Association of Worked Flakes with Probosidian Bones near Lake Lavon, Collin County, Texas.'' Archeological Journal of the Texas Prairie-Savannah 1(1):4-8.</ref><ref name="FerringOthers2011a">Ferring, C.R., 2000, ''The Archeology and Paleoecology of the Aubrey Clovis Site (41DN79) Denton County, Texas.'' Center for Environmental Archeology, Department of Geography, University of North Texas, Denton.</ref> More recently, the Rockwall region was occupied by [[Caddo]] Indians. [[Creek people|Creek]] Indians moved to the area in the early 19th century.

In 1851, the first [[English-American|Anglo-American]] settlers moved to the area, and wells were dug. During the digging, they found large underground rock walls that were initially believed to be man-made. Later study of the wall-like features by geologists and archaeologists found them to be jointed, natural [[sandstone dike]]s that had intruded [[Cretaceous]] [[marl]].<ref name="Monroe1950"/><ref name="Ellwood Others1989"/> The wall, when viewed from above, runs in long straight lines with angles that form a near perfect rectangle. The eastern wall has several deviations that run in straight lines with sharp angles, which would be unusual for a natural formation in an already unusual closed loop wall formation.

The town was established April 17, 1854 and named after these natural rock walls. While originally part of Kaufman County, in 1873, Rockwall County was formed with Rockwall being the county seat.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Association |first=Texas State Historical |title=Rockwall County |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rockwall-county |access-date=2024-01-20 |website=Texas State Historical Association |language=en}}</ref>