Editing Lincoln Park, Texas (section)

== History ==
Lincoln Park is one of several towns that incorporated in Denton County in the early 1970s to sell alcohol in this otherwise [[dry county]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://dentoncountyhistoryandculture.wordpress.com/2021/10/01/temperance-prohibition-and-moonshine-in-denton-county/|date=October 1, 2021|title=Temperance, Prohibition, and Moonshine in Denton County|access-date=August 7, 2023}}{{Self-published inline|date=August 2023|certain=yes}}</ref> Incorporated in 1971, Lincoln Park served the [[Denton, Texas|Denton]] to [[McKinney, Texas|McKinney]] corridor of [[U.S. Highway 380]], supplying both college students from Denton and travelers passing through with drinks. After both Denton and McKinney voted to allow alcoholic sales in their cities, Lincoln Park began to decline. Previously it consisted of the original mobile home park, a liquor store and a Trail Dust Steak House restaurant.

Due to the land being sold for redevelopment to  Centurion American Development, on March 29, 2015, the Trail Dust Steakhouse closed permanently and has been leveled.  Also on the same day residents of Lincoln Park were notified that the land was also sold for redevelopment with all residents having to leave or relocate their homes before the end of June.  The mobile home park has since been vacated.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://starlocalmedia.com/littleelmjournal/news/lincoln-park-residents-encouraged-to-call-cadg-by-april-15/article_64796002-e256-11e4-9974-2f27e653d744.html|title=Lincoln Park residents encouraged to call CADG by April 15|date=April 13, 2015|access-date=August 7, 2023}}</ref>

Little Elm struck a deal with an arm of Centurion American Development, a mega-developer that has built everything from high-rises to master-planned, vastly upscale residential enclaves.

In 2014, Centurion made a deal with Nathaniel Parker III, father of [[Tan Parker]] (Texas House of Representatives) to purchase the acreage in and around Lincoln Park, one of the state's fastest growing areas. Little Elm then annexed Lincoln Park in an acrimonious and legally disputed maneuver in April.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://watchdog.org/223660/developer-hands-cash-fbi-investigates-rural-texas-village/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324084340/http://watchdog.org/223660/developer-hands-cash-fbi-investigates-rural-texas-village/|archive-date=March 24, 2017|title=FBI investigates 35 years of records in small Texas town|date=June 12, 2015 |access-date=August 7, 2023}}</ref>