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Highland Park is a town in central Dallas County, Texas, United States. The population was 8,864 in 2020. It is located amid the Dallas North Tollway and U.S. Route 75 (North Central Expressway), 4 miles (6 km) north of downtown Dallas.

Highland Park is bordered on the south, east and west by Dallas and upon the north by the city of University Park. Highland Park and University Park together comprise the Park Cities, an enclave of Dallas.

The house now known as Highland Park was bought in 1889 by a bureau of investors from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, known as the Philadelphia area Land Association, for an average price of $377 an acre, with a sum of $500,000. Henry Exall, an agent, intended to build the home along Turtle Creek as “Philadelphia Place”, exclusive housing based upon parkland areas in Philadelphia. He laid gravel roads, and dammed Turtle Creek, forming Exall Lake, before the Panic of 1893 brought a blow to his fortunes, halting development. Afterwards, he began a horse breeding farm. In the 1890s, Exall Lake was a common picnic destination for Dallas residents.