Editing Lewisville, Texas (section)

===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}}