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Images of America Series
Arcadia Publishing
May 2011
On Sale: April 25, 2011
128 pages
ISBN: 0738579939
EAN: 9780738579931
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Originally known as Holford's Prairie, Lewisville's name is
not the only thing that has changed about this town in its
long history. Settlers sponsored by the Peters Colony
Company founded the small community in the 1840s. In the
ensuing years, the settlement, renamed to Lewisville by
Basdeal W. Lewis in 1856, consistently grew and prospered
until its incorporation in 1925. Cotton farming and ginning,
the arrival of the Dallas and Wichita Railroad in 1881, the
expansion of Lake Dallas into Lake Lewisville in 1954, and
the opening of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport
in 1974 ensured that Lewisville became an important
commercial center in booming North Texas. Throughout its
phenomenal growth, however, Lewisville still retained the
charm and bonds of its farm-centered past. Today Lewisville
boasts the largest population and school district in Denton
County and serves as a suburb for the bustling Dallas/Fort
Worth Metroplex.
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