Plumbing older than the county's own water plant
Dallas was the original Gaston County seat from 1846 to 1911, its 1848 Greek Revival courthouse still standing at the center of the historic district after surviving an 1874 fire. County government moved to Gastonia only after a 1909 vote took effect in 1911 — decades before Gastonia's water treatment plant was even built in 1922.
What that timeline means for a Dallas plumbing project
A property from Dallas's courthouse-seat era predates any regional treated water system by 60-plus years, meaning the oldest homes here almost certainly started on wells and cisterns before eventually connecting to municipal supply. That layered history — well-era plumbing, then a municipal retrofit, then likely a modern update — is worth mapping out before starting repair or repiping work, since each layer used different materials and routing.
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Municipal water-system context
Gastonia's treatment plant, sourced mainly from Mountain Island Lake with the South Fork Catawba as backup, dates only to 1922 — a useful reference point for any Dallas property built during the town's earlier decades as county seat.