Downtown Dallas earns national historic designation

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Downtown Dallas earns national historic designation

Brian Dalton is the former mayor of Dallas in Polk County, Oregon. For more than 70 years, his family owned a furniture store downtown. Dalton says he grew up in the downtown district which he and other city leaders have been working for more than two decades to reinvigorate.And now, those efforts have paid off. Downtown Dallas was added to the National Register of Historic Places in May. The Salem Statesman Journal reported on the historic desi…