About this tour
DeSoto is a young-feeling suburb with old bones. Its story begins with Kentucky pioneers who came west in the 1850s, bought Peters Colony land, and farmed the prairie south of Dallas — leaving behind a homestead, a family cemetery, and the founding families whose names still mark the place. The city is light on in-town markers, so this short driving loop reaches just over the line to a neighbor for one stop, then circles back to the curated heart of Old Town DeSoto and the founders' creekside ground. The route runs from a preserved 1850s farm to the modern downtown, tracing how a scattering of farm families became a city — and pausing where the precise spots have faded from the map, asking you to imagine the rest.