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Interior Design Lewisville
Texas.
Founded by Barbara Stone, Coup d'oeil has been serving the
Lewisville, Texas, Interior Design community for over 20 years.
ASID and TAID membered, Coup d'oeil won the ASID first place award
in model home / showhouse catagory in 1996 and 2000 took home the Dallas
Homebuilders Association's Design Merit Award.
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expectations is the starting point for any home interior plan and that is what
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The History of Lewisville
Article credits at bottom of this article
LEWISVILLE, TEXAS (Denton
County). Lewisville is nine miles northeast of the Dallas-Fort
Worth International Airportqv in southeastern Denton County, ringed by Dallas, Fort Worth, and
Denton. The site was part of the Peters colony.qv In 1840 the Texas Immigration and Land Company was given an empresarioqv grant by the Republic of Texasqv to encourage settlement in the area. In 1844 the families of John
King and his son Augustus G., originally from Missouri, moved
from Bonham, Texas, to become the first settlers in the area that
became known as Holford Prairie, for John and James Holford, who
also arrived that year. Competition for land among increasing
numbers of settlers intensified in the 1850s. The Texas Immigration
and Land Company employed Henry Hedgcoxe to administer property
filings, plats, and titles. Hedgcoxe's strict adherence to company
rules and the law made him unpopular. During the Hedgcoxe War,qv disgruntled residents ran him out of town and destroyed his home
and records. In 1853 Willis Stewart went to Austin to sort out
the land claims. Stewart was able to settle the claims, aided
by the General Land Officeqv and, in the process, developed the earliest comprehensive homestead
law. In 1853 Basdeal W. Lewis bought the Holford properties and
established Lewisville. That year the Lewisville post office was
established. Rawlins, Kealy, and Herod built a gristmill in Lewisville
in 1862. Several stores were built, and by 1867 T. M. Clayton
and George Craft built the first cotton gin in Denton County there.
In 1868-69 the first church was built at Lewisville, and the first
Masonic lodge of the county was housed there.
Lewisville grew rapidly after the arrival of the
Dallas and Wichita Railway in 1881. By 1900 the population was
500. In 1925 the population reached 815, and the town incorporated.
Meanwhile, the Elm Fork of the Trinity River was dammed to assure
the area's water supply. Lewisville grew despite the Great Depression,qv and its population reached 873 in 1940. The population was 1,509
in 1950. Growth accelerated throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Expansion
of the dam on Lake Lewisville and construction of Interstate Highway
35E and D-FW Airport caused the population to increase to 5,439
by 1960. In August 1969 Lewisville was the site of the Texas International
Pop Festival, a three-day event that featured such stars as Janis
Joplinqv and B. B. King and drew a total attendance of 120,000. The growth
of defense, aerospace, and computer industries, the relocation
of many corporate headquarters and businesses to the region during
the 1970s and 1980s, and the completion of Vista Ridge Mall and
Alliance Airport boosted Lewisville's population to 37,329 by
the 1990 census. Lewisville is a planned mix of single and multiple
family housing with an award-winning park system. In addition
to the Lewisville Independent School District, an extension site
of Cooke County College serves the community. Lewisville, a home-rule
city since 1962, is governed by a council-manager government.
Its five council members and mayor are elected at large. City
offices occupy a $5 million facility that opened in 1989.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. A. Bridges, History of Denton,
Texas, from Its Beginning to 1960 (Waco: Texian Press, 1978).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas
at Austin.
Richard W. Byrd
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