What is now the Casa Linda area was once the farm of John Chenault, who built a small wooden schoolhouse where neighborhood children could be educated in the early 1880s. Thanks to the Santa Fe Railroad, the area thick with cotton fields soon became a town known as Reinhardt, which boasted a couple of stores, a bank and a cotton gin. Over the years, the building would be replaced several times, including the addition of the brick schoolhouse in 1941. The town was annexed into the city in 1945, at which point Reinhardt Elementary School joined the Dallas school system. (Source: Texas Historical Commission)
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