Editing Lewisville, Texas (section)

==History==

===Settlement===
In 1841, the [[Republic of Texas]] chartered the [[Peters Colony]] Land Grant Company (named for William Smalling Peters, publisher of the song "[[Oh! Susanna]]"){{sfn|Capace|1999|p=437}} to settle the [[North Texas]] area.{{sfn|Cole-Jett|2011|p=9}} In 1844, John W. King and his wife settled on the east side of the prairie, where the city now lies. Baptist settlers from [[Platte County, Missouri]], settled on the west side; among them were John and James Holford, who named the area Holford's Prairie.{{sfn|Cowling|1936|p=16}}{{sfn|Bates|1918|p=29}} Further south, Presbyterians established a church and called it [[Flower Mound, Texas|Flower Mound]].{{sfn|Bates|1918|p=31}}  In the confusion over land ownership after the [[Hedgcoxe War]], Basdeal Lewis purchased Holford's Prairie in 1853 and renamed it after himself.{{sfn|Cole-Jett|2011|p=7}}

In 1845, the Fox family, which owned about a dozen slaves, buried a slave child called Melinda on the family farm, which eventually became the town's cemetery for black residents. Named Fox–Hembry Cemetery, the plot still exists today.{{sfn|Cole-Jett|2011|p=48}} After it had fallen into disrepair, local residents and businesses gathered to restore it in 2011.{{sfn|Southwell|2011}} Though [[Abraham Lincoln]] was not on the ballot in the area for the [[1860 United States presidential election|1860 Presidential election]], residents of Lewisville (listed as "Hollforts" on election results) still gave [[John C. Breckinridge]] only a 44–31 majority over an [[electoral fusion]] option.{{sfn|Bridges|1978|p=94}}

During [[Reconstruction Era of the United States|Reconstruction]], Lewisville became home to [[Denton County, Texas|Denton County's]] first [[cotton gin]]. Built in 1867, it could produce up to three bales per day.{{sfn|Bates|1918|p=278}}{{sfn|Bridges|1978|p=121}} The [[Thirteenth Texas Legislature]] chartered the Dallas and Wichita Railroad (later the [[Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad|Missouri–Kansas–Texas]]) on terms requiring 20 miles of track to be in running order by July 1, 1875. Lewisville paid the company $15,000 to come to the city, with a promise of another $5,000 on completion.{{sfn|Bridges|1978|p=147}}  The company fulfilled the deal by completing the railroad tracks to a point just south of Lewisville on the morning of the deadline, and the line began running full-time in 1881.{{sfn|Bates|1918|p=172}}{{sfn|Cole-Jett|2011|p=9}} Republicans in the [[Fourteenth Texas Legislature]] passed a law on April 30, 1874, prohibiting alcohol within two miles of the town.{{sfn|Gammel|1898|p=595}} Many residents ignored the law, however, and the city retained as many as 17 saloons at one point.{{sfn|Bates|1918|p=146}} The population of the unincorporated town was 500 in 1888.{{sfn|Foster|1888|p=55}}

===Progress===
[[File:Lewisville Theater Old Town.jpg|alt=Photograph of an old theater sign on a rustic building.|thumb|upright|The building currently housing the Greater Lewisville Community Theater, built in 1885, is the oldest standing structure in Lewisville.{{sfn|GLCT|2006}}]]
On January 15, 1925, residents voted by a margin of 17 votes to [[Municipal corporation|incorporate]] Lewisville, which established its official boundaries as a city.{{sfn|Hervey|2002|p=26}} By 1930, Lewisville's population had increased to 853, making it the fourth-most populous municipality in Denton County (behind [[Denton, Texas|Denton]], [[Sanger, Texas|Sanger]], and [[Pilot Point, Texas|Pilot Point]]).{{sfn|Bridges|1978|p=367}}

Because the city's economy had become diversified before the [[Wall Street Crash of 1929]], Lewisville was relatively well insulated from the [[Great Depression]]. Many residents, including business leaders, nevertheless supported the [[New Deal]] programs of [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].{{sfn|Cole-Jett|2011|p=25}}{{sfn|Degan|1991|pp=21–23}} By 1936, the [[Works Progress Administration]] operated a cannery in the city to provide temporary jobs for unemployed residents.{{sfn|Bridges|1978|p=371}} As an extension of the [[Good Roads Movement]], which had been prominent in Denton County since the early 1910s,{{sfn|Almanac|1912|p=279}} residents formed the Good Roads Committee of Lewisville to lobby state and federal officials for funding to create better streets.{{sfn|Cole-Jett|2011|pp=27–32}}{{sfn|Bridges|1978|p=287}} Lewisville celebrated the paving of the [[U.S. Route 77 in Texas|U.S. Route 77]] between Denton and [[Dallas]] in 1931 with a "Coming Out of the Mud" ceremony. The new pavement closed the "Lewisville Gap" between the two cities, a stretch of dirt road through the city that often became too muddy for travel.{{sfn|Odom|1996|p=69}}

The new road also led indirectly to the downfall of the area's public transportation system. Between 1925 and 1932, the Texas Interurban Railway, an electric [[commuter rail]] service that ran from Dallas to Denton, operated a station in Lewisville. Business leaders in the Lewisville Chamber of Commerce welcomed the service at the time, proudly citing the city's [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] citizenship.{{sfn|Tunnell|Moore|Minor|1925|p=15}} The area's low population density could not sustain the venture, however, and in 1932, the line went out of business and immediately halted service.{{sfn|Moynihan|2007|p=6}}{{sfn|Cochran|1992|p=15}}

On April 25, 1934, [[Raymond Hamilton]] of the [[Barrow gang]] robbed the First National Bank of Lewisville. Residents chased him to [[Howe, Texas]], where he was captured at a roadblock and transferred to Dallas County Jail.{{sfn|Cole-Jett|2011|p=52}}{{sfn|Riddell|1934}}

===Growth===
Lewisville's rapid growth began when construction of the Garza–Little Elm Dam finished in 1954, expanding the Garza–Little Elm Reservoir into what is now [[Lewisville Lake]].{{sfn|Cole-Jett|2011|p=99}}  The city adopted a [[Home Rule in the United States|home-rule]] charter for a [[Council–manager government|council–manager]] style of municipal government in 1963, becoming one of only a few home-rule cities in Texas with a population less than 5,000.{{sfn|Almanac|1964|pp=553–554}} In September 1969, 13 days after [[Woodstock]], the city hosted the [[Texas International Pop Festival]], which drew over 150,000 spectators and featured performances by [[Janis Joplin]], [[B.B. King]], and [[Led Zeppelin]].{{sfn|Wilonsky|2011}} In 2011, the [[Texas Historical Commission]] dedicated a historical event marker at the [[Hebron (DCTA station)|Hebron]] [[A-train (Denton County Transportation Authority)|A-train]] station in Lewisville to commemorate the event.{{sfn|Lewis|2011}}

When [[Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport]] opened to the south of the city in 1974 and [[The Vista (Lewisville, Texas)|Vista Ridge Mall]] opened at the intersection of [[Interstate 35E (Texas)|Interstate 35E]] and [[FM 3040|Round Grove Road]] in 1989, Lewisville began to undergo rapid suburban growth.{{sfn|Cole-Jett|2011|p=125}} Its population increased from 24,273 in 1980 to 46,521 in 1990, making it the 40th-most populous city in Texas.{{sfn|Miskura|1990|p=95}} In the early 1990s, the Lewisville Chamber of Commerce marketed the city with the slogan "City of Expanding Horizons".{{sfn|Lewisville COC|1991|p=136}} Its population reached 77,737 in 2000, 95,290 in 2010, and 111,822 in 2020.{{sfn|QuickFacts|2015}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=U.S. Census Bureau QuickFacts: Lewisville city, Texas; United States |url=https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/lewisvillecitytexas/PST045222 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230916221841/https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/lewisvillecitytexas/PST045222 |archive-date=September 16, 2023 |access-date=September 16, 2023 |website=www.census.gov |language=en}}</ref> In November 2021, the city completed the annexation of the Castle Hills development, located northeast of the city, into its boundaries, adding almost 3000 acres and 18,000 residents.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Steve |date=November 15, 2021 |title=4,500-home Castle Hills community is now a part of Lewisville |url=https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2021/11/15/4500-home-castle-hills-community-is-now-a-part-of-lewisville/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211219065640/https://www.dallasnews.com/business/real-estate/2021/11/15/4500-home-castle-hills-community-is-now-a-part-of-lewisville/ |archive-date=December 19, 2021 |access-date=September 16, 2023 |website=Dallas News |language=en}}</ref>