A dynamic suburban community
Lewisville was formally established after the election on January 15, 1925, but settlement as a community actually began about 80 years earlier. In the 1840s, the Republic of Texas brought 600 families to what is now Denton County to the Texas Emigration and Land Company. Each family will get 640 acres and bachelors 320 acres. By 1846, the necessary families had arrived and Denton County was formed. The first settlers in the Lewisville area were the families of John and Augustus King, who migrated to the area in 1844.
Under their leadership, John and James Holford brought several families from Platt, Missouri, and settled in the western part of the King Land. Lewisville’s population was stable until the 1940s, reaching a total of 1,500 in 1950. By 1960, engineers built the Lewisville Lake Dam, and the US 77 (now IH-35E) moved west to replace Mill Street. The main north-south road that runs between Dallas and Denton. Lewisville had a population of approximately 4,000 in 1960, and in the late 1960s, Hunt Property purchased and annexed more than 2,500 acres of land known as the Lewisville Valley Addition.