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.
World War II. President of the Weimar Republic Hindenburg dies. On this day in 1934, Paul von Hindenburg, president of the Weimar Republic of Germany, dies, opening the door for the tyranny of Adolf Hitler, whom he had appointed chancellor in 1933. Hindenburgâs life was one immersed in the Prussian military tradition.