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Texas.
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The History of Colleyville
"Tarrant County Historic Resources Survey"
Historic Preservation Council of Tarrant County, Texas
Colleyville has historically been primarily a rural area, situated for
the most part between Big Bear and Little Bear Creek in the Eastern
Cross Timbers of the central portion of northeastern Tarrant County.
The first significant settlement of
the area began in the 1850's. Samuel C.H. Witten came to Texas from
Missouri in 1854 and established a farm along Little Bear Creek. He
become one of the founders of the Spring Garden community, which
flourished in the 1860's around a well-known school, finally declining
in the 1870's as Bedford rose to prominence. Other settlers from the
upper South included Johathan A. Riley, who came from Kentucky in 1856
and settled near the Spring Garden community; the Kentucky-born
adventurer and Civil War veteran Ryan Harrington, who bought land in
1865 near the community of Pleasant Glade; and William B Cheek, who
migrated to northeast Tarrant County from Kentucky in 1869, eventually
settling near Ryan Harrington's property.
Other farmers continued to arrive
throughout the 19th century. William Dunn settled property between Big
Bear Creek and Bransford in 1875; the James R. Forbes family, of Bedford
County, Tennessee, established a farm in 1887; and French native Anthelm
Bidault began cultivating his renowned orchards and vineyards near the
Pleasant Run community in 1897.
The communities of Pleasant Glade and
Pleasant Run were hamlets situated in clearings of the Eastern Cross
Timbers. Churches, schools, and stores served the rural population.
Pleasant Run Baptist Church, organized in 1877, was the first church
within what is now Colleyville.
The St. Louis, Arkansas, & Texas
Railway (later known as the St. Louis & Southwestern or the Cotton
Belt Route) extended its tracks between Fort Worth and Grapevine in the
late 1800's, passing through the hamlet of Red Rock in the Colleyville
area in 1888. The nearby community of Bransford, clustered around the
general store and post office of Felix G. Bransford, disappeared that
same year when the store and post office were moved to Red Rock, which
was renamed Bransford. The new Bransford prospered over the next several
decades, becoming the largest community in the Colleyville area. In
addition to the post office, the town had two blacksmith shops, a livery
stable, four general stores, and a lodge hall shared by the Masons, Odd
Fellows and Woodmen of the World. Four doctors resided there.
Lilburn Howard Colley was one of these
doctors. A native of Missouri and a veteran of the Union Army, Dr.
Colley and his wife move to Texas in 1880, eventually settling in
Bransford soon after the town was founded. In his forty years of active
practice, he became one of the best-known physicians in northeast
Tarrant County and was widely respected as a leader in the Bransford
area. Colley's name became associated with a community that formed
around a store opened by W.G. Couch on Glade Road south of Bransford in
1914. The surrounding area gradually acquired the name of
"Colleyville."
The hamlets of Pleasant Run and
Pleasant Glade had populations respectively of 75 and 50 in 1940, and
today have all but disappeared. Bransford declined after World War I, as
the automobile took precedence over the railroads for passenger travel.
The last store, owned by John R. Webb, closed in 1925. The town became
known primarily for a large nursery established by Andy Felps around
1920. Bransford retained a population of 155 in 1940, but today has
vanished except for a clustering of houses around the train tracks.
Colleyville was incorporated on
January 10, 1956, and its city limits are now contiguous with those of
Grapevine and Euless on the east, Bedford and Hurst on the south, Keller
and North Richland Hills on the west and Southlake on the north.
Although once a predominantly rural community, Colleyville has
experienced significant residential development during the past decade.
From a population of about 1,500 in 1960, it grew to 6,700 in 1980 and
had an estimated population of 11,300 by 1989. Grapevine Highway
(Highway 26) passes through its center, and many of its residents are
commuters to Fort Worth.
"Tarrant County Historic Resources Survey"
Historic Preservation Council of Tarrant County, Texas
Copyright, 1990
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