Overview
Lewisville is a town in Denton County and Dallas County, Texas (USA). From the 2000 census, the city's total population was the 77737th With strong population growth continuing into the new millennium, the city's official website for the estimated 2006 population of the 89000th Lewisville is one of the older incorporated cities in the northern area of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, but it remained a small rural town of only a few thousand people as late as 1960.
The first white settlement, which has now taken place in Lewisville 1840s. Basdeal Lewis purchased the land around which Lewisville would be formed and named the town after himself.
Economic growth was very slow during the 19th century, population will increase by only about 500 by 1900. The settlement does not boast several agriculture-related industries, including grist Mill, a cotton gin and the livery stable and feed mill. In 1885 the building currently housing the Greater Lewisville Community Theater was built in the town's major thoroughfare, Main Street. It remains to Lewisville's oldest standing structure.
Lewisville High School opened in 1897, and 1909 is the first bank robbery at the time of the history of Denton County, First National Bank of Lewisville. 1,925 residents voted to incorporate the city region. Lewisville slowly increased, together with its first automobile dealership and the traffic light will appear over the next two decades. Another major bank robbery took place in 1934 the first National Bank, this time engineered by the Barrow gang (minus leaders Bonnie and Clyde, who visited the city earlier that year).
Construction and the Lewisville Dam began in 1948 and concluded six years later, which expanded the Garza-Little Elm Reservoir into account the current 30,000-acre lake Lewisville. Population growth began to accelerate, and 1970 census counted 9,264 residents. Lewisville in 1963 became one of the first Texas city to integrate the school system, with the first two African-American graduates from Lewisville High School in 1965 and third in 1966. In September 1969 the city hosted the Texas International Pop Festival is Labor Day weekend, with Janis Joplin, BB King and Led Zeppelin works. Only four weeks after Woodstock the festival drew over 250,000 rock and jazz fans.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport opened in 1974 and the population of cities like Lewisville and Flower Mound, north of the airport began to explode. Census data tell a story: 24273 1980, 46,521 in 1990 and 77,737 in 2000. Continued strong growth, although the city has tried to maintain a small town Ambiance.
Lewisville is in part due to growth in the vicinity of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, a few miles to the south by the city. Lewisville served a time as the company's headquarters Fleming Foods, a food distributor, before the company ran into financial problems and the way forward. Vista Ridge Mall is an important and expanding shopping center for Lewisville and surrounding communities. Lewisville lake north of the city, is located in the southern borders of Lake Grapevine. City served by the Lewisville Independent School District, and to a lesser extent, the Coppell Independent School District. Four private Christian schools are also located in Lewisville. Among well-known people of the city are Walt Garrison, former Dallas Cowboys fullback, and Dave Mitchell, radio personality in Miami and Dallas.