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Tax Exemption Awarded to Historic Homes
The City of McKinney has recognized that without the architecture and history that defines McKinney, this town would be just another Dallas suburb. That's why the City has created a program to reward owners who wish to preserve their historic homes.
You never know what you might find.
Discover McKinney History
It's not just McKinney architecture that is memorable. The people who lived and visited McKinney in the past are perhaps more striking than the architecture. Past residences of McKinney include pioneers, Civil War veterans, outlaws, bankers, cotton traders, mule traders, a Texas governor, and a U.S. Senator.
In 1923, one of the more interesting residents was J.J. Raney, an oil man, who embezzled $234 from his employer, the Texhoma Oil and Gas Company. He eluded arrest and was thought to have drowned in an East Texas lake but showed up in McKinney months later to visit relatives where he was finally taken into custody.
Among other illustrative personalities to spend time in McKinney were Jesse and Frank James as well as Bonnie and Clyde Barrow. In the first half of the 20th century there were McKinney residents related to these notorious outlaws and hosted them in their homes.
In the early years of McKinney, everyone was connected by a web of business and family relations. It is nearly certain that at least one of the owners of your home was either famous or infamous.
Tom Michero can research your home's past and create a genealogy of its former residents and help you get the tax exemption the City of McKinney offers to owners of historic homes.
Jesse (rt.) and Frank James are among the historical figures who are a part of McKinney's past.