Early pioneer T.U. Wade discovered the rock wall when digging a well in the mid-1800s, about the time the town was founded. Wade suggested naming the town Rockwall after the curious geological formation.The name was accepted and the town of Rockwall was platted on April 17, 1854.
The Weimar Republic, named after the German city of Weimar, is the democratic republic which governed Germany between 1919 and 1933.
A new Republic was declared. In January 1919, elections were held for a new Reichstag and in February 1919, in the town of Weimar, a new government was agreed. Freidrich Ebert was elected President of the new Republic. Germany did not just get a new government.