The City of Lewisville has more than 400 print and digital photos in the Lewisville Collection, dating from as early as the 1870s. These photographs have been obtained from many different sources, most prominently when long-time Lewisville residents and descendants of early community members recognize that donating to a preserved and documented collection is the best way to ensure that the Lewisville Story continues to be shared by future generations. These photos help bring Lewisville’s history to light and put relatable human faces on long-ago events. This page presents a sampling of photographic images contained in The Lewisville Collection.
Email [email protected] if you are interested in donating to the archive or loaning photos or videos for digital scanning.Pre-1900
1870s Elisha and Nancy Stover Tintype
This is a tintype of Charles Elisha “Lish” and Nancy Stover, early settlers in the area of Lewisville. He died in 1872. The photo likely dates to the 1860s and the image is very clear.
1877 Lewisville Colored School receipt
In the early days of Denton County, free public schools had to be approved by the county in order to receive government funding. This image shows a receipt issued on August 29, 1877, to establish Lewisville Colored School and accept $92.40 for maintenance of the school. Hoyle Day, Jack Bell, and George Sheets were appointed as trustees for the school, which operated in some form until the 1960s. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1877 Lewisville School receipt
In the early days of Denton County, free public schools had to be approved by the county in order to receive government funding. This image shows a receipt issued on August 24, 1877, to establish Lewisville Public School and accept $227.15 for maintenance of the school. G.W. Morse, T.M. Clayton, and W.H. Graham were appointed as trustees for the school. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1878 Rhoda King land patent 01
This document (one of two) had to be recreated after a fire at the old Dallas County Courthouse. It grants Rhoda King, a 60-year-old widowed mother of seven children, an allotment of 320 acres in the Peters Colony. Image is published on page 22 of Reflections. Originally from the collection of R.L. Crawford Jr. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1878 Rhoda King land patent 02
This document (one of two) had to be recreated after a fire at the old Dallas County Courthouse. It grants Rhoda King, a 60-year-old widowed mother of seven children, an allotment of 320 acres in the Peters Colony. Image is published on page 22 of Reflections. Originally from the collection of R.L. Crawford Jr. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1880s Kealy Cotton Gin receipt
Three prominent farmers and businessmen (Rawlings, Kealy and Herod) came together in 1862 to build Denton County’s first gristmill. They built away from the Old Hall area, mostly to get closer to water, which was the sole source of electrical power to run the mill. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1880s Railroad Handcar
Mr. Gary’s railroad crew used a handcar to perform maintenance on the Missouri-Kansas-Texas (MKT) tracks. Photo published on page 44 of Reflections; and on page 30 of Images of America: Lewisville. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1883 Sam Jenkins building a wagon
Although Sam Jenkins didn’t move his family from Moccasin Bend, Tennessee, to Lewisville until 1893, this is how the majority of settlers arrived in Texas, via covered wagons built by hand. Image is published on page 17 of Reflections. Photo published on page 17 of Reflections. Originally from the collection of Willeta Sherrill Stellmacher. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1885 Skillern Drugstore
The original Skillern’s Drug Store was started in Lewisville in 1881 when James A. Skillern bought one-third rights to D.S. Donald’s Drug Store. Photo published on page 49 of Reflections; and on page 79 of Images of America: Flower Mound. Photo courtesy of Lewisville Independent School District.
1887 Photo – Group of Western Men
A group of men poses in front of an unidentified building in downtown Lewisville. A handwritten note on the back says “6-25-87 Lewisville TX – Group Western Men – 1 black in doorway”
1889 Guy Bourland
Photo believed to be of Guy Bourland, taken in 1889. Originally from the collection of Ken Bourland. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1890 – W.W. Jones
W.W. Jones, father of Emma Jones Robertson, seen in a studio photo probably taken around 1890. He was said to be an educated man who was well respected in the community. The Jones family was a pioneer family in what today is Flower Mound. Photo is published on page 53 of “Images of America: Flower Mound.” Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1890c Hatcher Dry Goods
The original J.A. Hatcher Dry Goods was built on the northwest corner of what would become Main Street and Poydras. The site later became home to First National Bank of Lewisville. Image is published on page 32 of Reflections (2002); and on page 15 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1891 Registered Mail Receipt – Front
A registered mail receipt dated January 12, 1891, for a letter from S.H. Crawford in Lewisville to Jane Winkler of Kentucky. Originally from the collection of R.L. Crawford Jr. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1891 Registered Mail Receipt – Reverse
A registered mail receipt dated January 12, 1891, for a letter from S.H. Crawford in Lewisville to Jane Winkler of Kentucky. Originally from the collection of R.L. Crawford Jr. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1894 Cobb family singers
People would come from miles around and even sleep in their wagons to hear the Cobbs perform in Lewisville. The family played violins and guitars, sang, and danced Virginia Reels. Bottom row, from left: James Sylevester Cobb, Pet Cobb, Alice Cobb, unidentified cousin, Molley Cowan. Top row, from left: unidentified cousin, Ned Cobb, unidentified cousin, Orshon Cobb, Henrietta Cobb. Photo is published on page 27 of Reflections. Originally from the collection of Loffie and Edna Smith. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1894 Overton Hamilton family
Overton Littleton Hamilton (1867-1934) and his wife Alice Josephine (1870-1956) with their four children – Velda Elizabeth (1889-1928), Verga Alma (1891-1964), Freda Alice (1892-1970), and Edsel Poston (1894-1960). Hamilton later became the owner of the Lewisville Enterprise newspaper. Photo is published on page 38 of Reflections. Originally from the collection of Ken Bourland. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1895 Henry Baxter at harvest
Henry Baxter and other farmers got a lot of help with the harvest in 1895. The schools closed and neighbors helped neighbors bring in the crops that would finance the rest of the year. Photo is published on page 29 of Reflections. Originally from the collection of Billy Bob Burdette. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1896 Stockard Family home
The Stockard family was one of the first in Lewisville. It’s believed this original farmhouse was built sometime around 1866. A smokehouse can be seen in the background. The infant in the photo is John William Stockard, who was born on September 4, 1896. Photo is published on page 19 of Reflections. Originally from the collection of Dora Sides. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1897 Main Street looking west
Houses on both sides of Main Street west of downtown. A handwritten note on the border above the photo identifies this as Lewisville in 1897. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1897 Main Street north side
Building facades on the north side of Main Street and multiple buildings north of downtown. A handwritten note on the border above the photo identifies this as Lewisville in 1897. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1897c CJ Thomas House
The CJ Thomas house was built in about 1897 at the corner of Herod Street and College Street. This was part of the area commonly called Sweet Milk Hill, the northern part of town were prominent (exclusively white at the time) residents lived. The area to the east, nearer the train depot, was called Buttermilk Flats and featured more working-class housing. Black families mostly lived south of downtown around the area now known as the McKenzie-Hembry neighborhood. Photo published on page 24 of Reflections, and on page 34 of Images of America: Lewisville. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1898 Sherrill-Cobb marriage license
This document was issued in Denton County to commemorate the marriage of W.W. Sherrill and Etta Mae Cobb. It was signed on December 9, 1898. Image is published on page 28 of Reflections. Originally from the collection of Willeta Sherrill Stellmacher. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1898c Main Street core
During the period between Texas prohibition (1845-1856) and later U.S. prohibition (1920-1933), Lewisville was home to as many as 17 saloon at one time. Rumors of illegal speakeasies in the 1920s still persist. This photo of Main Street, taken between 1898 and 1900, shows one saloon (right) and a good view of Jacobsen’s Hardware on the southeast corner of Main and Mill (left). Image is pubilshed on page 41 of Reflections, and on page 18 of Images of America: Lewisville. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1899 – Thomas and Houston Lumber Yard
The Thomas and Houston Lumber Yard, pictured here in about 1899 , was located on the northeast corner of Mill and Elm streets immediately north of the James Degan cotton gin. There were at least three active lumber yards in Lewisville as the rapidly growing town entered the 20th century. This site later became Temple Lumber and then Lewisville Lumber. The water standpipe seen in the background behind the building was located closer to Poydras Street and was owned by Willam Wilson Sherrill as part of his Main Street water distribution system; many elevated photos of Main Street were shot from atop the standpipe. Image is published on page 52 of Reflections (2002), and on page 23 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo originally from the collection of Henrietta Cobb Sherrill. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1899 Newspaper – Lewisville Enterprise Supplement
An advertising supplement of the Lewisville Enterprise newspaper, dated December 9, 1899. Businesses promoted in the supplement include G.W. Elbert & Son general goods, Kerr & White, The MKT Katy Flyer rail line, James Hayes hardware, and J.M. Hendrix furniture. With the town so small, no addresses were needed. Lewisville Enterprise was the only newspaper in Lewisville for many years. Its publishers through the decades included Overton Hamilton and Jack Lewis, who served a Lewisville’s second elected mayor in 1929-1931. The Enterprise published from 1891 until 1962, when it merged into the Lewisville Leader. Image is published on page 47 of Reflections. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1899c – Loard Family Portrait
The Loard Family, circa 1899. Seated are Thomas Luther Loard and Mary Jane Battles Loard. The children are Cordellia Loard and Willie Carroll Loard, who was born in Lewisville in 1889. As an adult, he ran a grocery store that moved to several locations on Main Street, eventually settling at 115 W. Main Street (the current location of The Perc Coffeehouse). Photo courtesy of Kerry Vance.
1900 – 1909
1900 – Frank Stinchcomb farm
In a photo dated to July 15, 1900, Bob Evetts with his crew and machinery are seen threshing grain on the farm of Frank Stinchcomb in Justin. Threshing crews would usually work together throughout the harvest season, moving from farm to farm while eating from a “cook shack” and sometimes sleeping under their wagons. Harvest season in Denton County normally started in early June and could last up to six weeks. Image is published on page 15 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011); and on page 42 of An Illustrated History of Denton County (1996). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1900 Tom Young, Tallest Man in Lewisville
Standing at 6 feet and 10 inches, Tom Young was easily spotted as the tallest man in town. Young owned a grocery story on Poydras Street. He was good-natured and posed for the occasional photograph, including this one in 1900 when he posed alongside the shortest man in town, whose name is not recorded. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1900 Tom Young, Tallest Man in Lewisville
Standing at 6 feet and 10 inches, Tom Young was easily spotted as the tallest man in town. Young owned a grocery story on Poydras Street. He was good-natured and posed for the occassional photograph, including this one in 1900 when he posed alongside the shortest man in town, whose name is not recorded. Image is published on page 55 of Reflections (2002), and on page 42 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1900 women in a buggy 1
Four local women (names unknown) in fine dresses and hat on a buggy excursion in 1900 that included a brief stop to pick cotton in the fields. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1900 women in a buggy 2
Four local women (names unknown) in fine dresses and hat on a buggy excursion in 1900 that included a brief stop to pick cotton in the fields. Image is published on page 33 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1900 women picking cotton
Four local women (names unknown) in fine dresses and hat on a buggy excursion in 1900 that included a brief stop to pick cotton in the fields. Image is published on page 33 of Reflections (2002), and on page 15 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1900c Cotton Harvest (1)
A line of 12 adults and two children standing in a cotton field during the harvest season. Cotton was the primary cash crop in Southern Denton County during Lewisville’s first 80 years.
By the time of the city’s incorporation election in 1925, Lewisville was home to five cotton gins. Destruction caused by the boll weevil in the 1920s and 1930s forced local farmers to focus on other crops, including peanuts and pecans. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1900c Lewisville Academy
Lewisville Academy was the first Lewisville School District campus, a two-story wooden building on the northwest corner of Cowan and College that opened in 1895. It served students in all grade levels. The building burned down in 1918, allegedly the result of a student prank that got out of control. Image is published on page 60 of Reflections (2002), and on page 79 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1900c Main Street core
This photo, dated to about 1900, shows the eastern half of downtown Lewisville as seen from a water standpipe off Poydras Street south of Main. The photo shows the area around what is now the Main-Mill intersection and includes Jacobsen’s Hardware, Lewisville Hotel, City Garage, Degan Feed Mill, Stover Groceries and Hotel, and the Hayes House. Image is published on page 53 of Reflections (2002), and on page 17 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1900c Stover Store and Degan Livery Stable
The intersection of Main and Mill streets as it existed in about 1900, with Stover Groceries and Hotel on the northwest corner and the Degan Feed Mill on the northeast corner. The wooden livery stable was built in 1886 and torn down in 1932 to prepared for the construction of a new Huffines Motor Company building. The Lewisville Enterprise lamented the change, saying “like the horse… (it) has to make way for the modern means of transportation, the automobile.” Image is published on page 50 of Reflections (2002); on page 16 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011); and on page 46 of An Illustrated History of Denton County (1996). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1901 Clipping – LHS first graduating class
This newspaper clipping from 1901 shows the five-member first graduating class at Lewisville High School. Pictured are (sitting) Spurge Stover, Louise Milliken, Cleve Crawford, (standing) Mable Addington, and Ethel Hayes. Lewisville Academy started offering high school-level courses in 1897. Image is published on page 54 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of Lewisville Independent School District.
1902 – First Methodist Church on Walters
First Methodist Church was organized on January 26, 1879, with Rev. J.S. Sherrill as presiding elder. The first church building, pictured here, was built in 1881 on Walters Street at Poydras. The church moved to the corner of Church and Herod in 1911 . Image is published on page 61 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Stanford and Doris Allen. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1902 Clipping – LHS graduating class
This newspaper clipping from 1902 shows the five-member second graduating class at Lewisville High School. Their names are not recorded. Lewisville Academy started offering high school-level courses in 1897. Image is published on page 54 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of Lewisville Independent School District.
1902 Elizabeth Cobb Jenkins
1902 Tom Fagg with watermelon
Tom Fagg shows off his 82.5-pound watermelon that he grew by himself. Image is published on page 55 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1902c Poydras Street north of Main
Early downtown Lewisville was concentrated along three blocks of Main Street, with residences north and west of downtown and family farms in all directions. Poydras Street ran north from Main Street (it was called Rawlings Street south of Main) and ended at the Methodist Church on Walters Street. Some of Lewiville’s first brick buildings can be seen on the right side of the photograph, across the street from the small wooden Young & Smith Drugs building. Image is published on page 51 of Reflections (2002); on page 17 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011); and on page 46 of An Illustrated History of Denton County (1996). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1903c – Main Street from the west
Photo is undated, but is thought to be from about 1903. It shows the brick Cobb Brothers store on the south side that was built in 1902 and the wooden Young & Smith Drugs store on the north side that is not found in any photo more recent than 1911. Photo courtesy of Gene Lewis.
1903c Lewisville wooden schoolhouse
Image is published on page 36 of Reflections (2002).
1903c Sam and Lizzie Jankins family
Sam and Lizzie Jenkins with their four oldest children: Etta Mae, Neddie, Graydon, and Hazel. The couple would have two more children in the years after this photo was taken. Image is published on page 12 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Loffie and Edna Smith. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1904 – Chinn’s Chapel School teacher Frank B. McMath
Frank B. McMath, teacher at Chinn’s Chapel School This picture was on the cover of a souvenir booklet given by McMath to his students in 1904.
1905 – LHS Baseball Team
Baseball was adopted early by Lewisville High School. This team photo is from about 1905, which would have been just four years after the first LHS gaduating class. The baseball team was called the “Sliuggers” until the Farmers mascot was adopted in the late 1910s. Image is published on page 56 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of Lewisville Independent School District.
1905c – James and Sally Hayes with Juanita Hayes (front)
James Hayes Sr. (died in 1906), daughter Nina Juanita Hayes (born in 1894), and Sally Hayes on the front porch of their family home. James and Sallie Hayes moved to a farm outside of Lewisville in 1878 and later built a two-story house on the southwest corner of Church and Kealy streets in downtown Lewisville. Their children included son Arthur Hayes, a future Lewisville mayor, and daughter Ethel Hayes, a member of the first LHS graduating class in 1901. Photo courtesy of Dianne Mayfield.
1905c Faith Trimble
Faith Trimble, believed to be the daughter of Thomas and Nancy Trimble and wife of Davis E. Nowlin, and buried in Chinn’s Chapel Cemetery (1884-1944). She lived in the Waketon community west of Lewisville.
1906 – Downtown Lewisville to the northwest
This newspaper clipping from 1974 reproduces a 1906 photo that shows the western half of downtown Lewisville as seen from a water standpipe off Poydras Street south of Main. The photo shows the area at and west of the Main-Poydras intersection and includes Young & Smith Drugs, First Methodist Church, First Presbyterian Church, and First Baptist Church. The original photograph is unaccounted for. Image courtesy of Kara Young.
1906 Receipt – James Hayes Hardware
James Hayes & Sons sold hardware, tinware, farm tools, buggies, and wagons. Handwritten portions of this receipt show that it was issued to O.E. Cobb on April 1, 1906, and confirmed the final payment for a purchase made in 1905. One of those “sons” was Arthur Hayes, who was Lewisvlle fourth elected mayor, serving April 1931-October 1940. Photo courtesy of Dianne Mayfield.
1907 Robertson Family Going to the Doctor
Oscar Robertson (1885-1983), Eva Robertson, and daughter Sudie Robertson (1907-1995) travelling by wagon from their home in the Waketon community to see the doctor in Lewisville. Photo believed taken by Oscar’s brother, William W. Robertson (born in 1872), a local blacksmith who also worked as a photographer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1908 Election Tombstone on Main Street
Electon Day losers in the early years of the 1900s often were commemorated the next day with handmade tombstones stuck in the Main Street dirt.
This photo was taken after the election held Feb. 14, 1908, and features a handwritten note that says, “They fought bravely but fell short.” Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1908 Jim Waggonger cooking duty
Jim Waggoner (right) drew cooking duty at the harvest camp on this day in 1908. Image is published on page 58 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Billy Bob Burdette. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1908 Lewisville Enterprise cropped
The Lewisville Enterprise had its business office in a back room at First National Bank, accessed through the Post Office entrance. Its printing machinery, seen here in a 1908 photo, was located in a small building on Poydras that was connected to the bank building. Pictured are Edsel Polston Hamilton (left) and publisher Overton L. Hamilton (right). Image is published on page 50 of Reflections (2002); on page 25 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Originally from the collection of Ken Bourland. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1908 Main Street parade (SMU)
This postcard-style photo postmarked in 1908 shows the Independence Day parade held that year on Main Street in Lewisville. Businesses visible along the north side of Main Street include E.F. Stover Groceries and Hotel, Elbert & Son Dry Goods, R.H. Lee Drugs, Milliken & Sons Dry Goods, and J.A. Hatcher Dry Goods. Photo courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
1908 Otho Sparks chain gang
This photo is dated to June 20, 1908, and shows a chain gang overseen by Otho Sparks. Members in the photo are (from right) Less Milks, Otho Sparks, Sam Kealy, Clyde Durbin, Johnny Ruff, and (seated) Jug Popinall. Originally from the collection of Billy Bob Burdette. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1908 parade floats (SMU)
This postcard-style photo postmarked in 1908 shows floats from the Independence Day parade held that year in Lewisville. Businesses named on the floats include Bradley Groceries and Buck’s Stoves. Photo courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University
1908c – Velda Hamilton of Lewisville Enterprise
Velda Hamliton and a friend sit in a horse-and-buggy decorated to promote the Lewisville Enterprise newspaper. The Enterprise published from 1891 until 1962, when it merged into the Lewisville Leader. Image is published on page 56 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Ken Bourland. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collecton.
1908c Linnie and Lorice Baxter
Linnie and Lorice Baxter lived with their family in the Buttermilk Flats area of Lewisville east of downtown, where most working-class houses were built in the community’s early days. Originally from the collection of Billy Bob Burdette. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1909 – DF Robertson family
When the D.F. Robertson family came to Texas in about 1891, they settled in the Waketon community where Marcus High School now stands. Many of the Robertson family members lived on the Robertson farm and helped with every phase of farming. Family members are (first row, from left) D.F. “Dock” Robertson and his wife Emma Robertson; (second row) daughters Margaret, Lena, Ellie, Ida, Arzula, Wallie, and Dora; (third row) sons Willie, Andy, Ross, and Oscar. The portrait is of deceased son John, who died 1/3/1909. `
1909 – Willie Carroll Loard and Stella Mae Wheeler
Willie Carroll Loard and Stella Mae Wheeler in a photo likely taken on their wedding day in 1909. Loard was born in Lewisville in 1889. As an adult, he ran a grocery store that moved to several locations on Main Street, eventually settling at 115 W. Main Street (the current location of The Perc Coffeehouse). Photo courtesy of Kerry Vance.
1909 Lewisville Depot
With the Missouri Kansas & Texas (MKT) railroad going through town, Lewisville became a commercial center for agriculture, especially cotton. The MKT depot, seen here in about 1909, also provided connections for north-south passenger rail service on the Katy Flyer (pictured). Image is published on page 57 of Reflections (2002); and on page 28 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1909 Lewisville Depot corrected
1909 Main Street
This postcard, which has been dated to 1909, gives a view of Main Street looking from west to east. Visible in the photo are Young & Smith Drugs on the north side of the street, and Cobb Brothers Dry Goods on the south side of the street. The drug store building was torn down in 1917 to make way for the second location of First National Bank. The Cobb building, constructed in 1902, still stands today as the home of Playhouse Lewisville. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
1909 Washday with Sudie Robertson
Women and children in the early Waketon community west of downtown Lewisville would gather regularly to share their laundry and child-watching duties. A handwritten note taped to the back of this photo says, “Washday 1909. Sudie on chair.” Sudie Robertson was born in 1907 and died in 1995. She was known for sewing uniforms each year for the Lewisville High School cheerleaders. Photo believed taken by William W. Robertson (born in 1872), a local blacksmith who also worked as a photographer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1909 postcard – East from railroad depot
A railroad depot in Lewisville, presumed to be the MKT depot that was located on the east side of the tracks immediately south of Main Street, across from the current DCTA A-train station commuter rail station. The photo shows a row of wood-frame houses in the background with the tracks in the foreground.
1909c Baxter House
Linnie and Lorice Baxter play on the front porch of the family home in the Buttermilk Flats area of Lewisville east of downtown, where most working-class houses were built in the community’s early days. Image is published on page 58 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Billy Bob Burdette. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1914 – Johnnie and Charlie Russell
Brothers Johnnie and Charlie Russell pose with rifles and a dog, preparing for or returning from a hunt. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1914 – Three Robertson Children
Sudie, Lester, and Eulis Robertson pose for a studio photo in about 1914 when Lester ws 9 months old. Eulis, who was 5 when this photo was taken, died about four years later. They were the children of Oscar and Eva Robertson and grew up in the Waketon Community. Photo is published on page 43 of “Images of America: Flower Mound.” Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1928c – Willie Carroll Loard and Cordell Loard Vance
Willie Carroll Loard with his daughter, Cordell Loard Vance, who was born in 1925 at the family home on Walters Street. Photo courtesy of Kerry Vance.
1910 – 1919
1910c Henry Baxter’s Grocery Store
The inside of Henry Baxter’s general goods store on the north side of Main Street, halfway between Mll and Poydras. Image is published on page 71 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Billy Bob Burdette. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1910c Seth Nowlin family
A handwritten note on the back of the photo identifies this as the Nowlin family and lists the names Ray, Foy, and Eldon. According to U.S. Census records, Seth and Ollie Nowlin four sons (Charlie, Ray, Foy, and Eldon) and an older adopted daughter (Lillie Maxwell). Based on the ages listed in the 1910 Census, the boys were born in about 1901, 1903, 1905, and 1908, and Lillie was born in about 1893. Based on ages and comparing to other photos, the photo likely shows (from left), Lillie, Ray, Foy, Seth, Ollie, and Charlie with Eldon standing in front of Ollie. The identity of the baby in the front-center is unknown. This photo is believed to have been taken by William W. Robertson, a local blacksmith who also worked as a photographer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1911 – July 4th Main Street Parade
Walkers and horse-drawn floats participated in an annual Independence Day parade on Main Street during the early years of the 20th Century. Main Street businesses visible in the photo include Lewisville State Bank, E.F. Stover Grocery, Elbert & Son General Supplies, Lambcombs Grocery, Millican & Son Dry Goods, J.A. Hatcher Dry Goods, G.W. Cassaday & Co. Drugs, First National Bank, and Young & Smith Drugs.
The largest float in the 1911 parade, pictured here, was entered by Woodmen of the World. The group met above the W.W. Smith Grocery in a two-story building that still stands on the southwest corner of Main and Poydras streets. Residents described the Smith store as being a favored hangout for old-timers, who played dominoes around a wood stove inside the store. Image is published on page 66 of Reflections (2002), and on page 20 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1911 – Urban Moore Drugs
Urban Moore opened his drugstore in 1911 – this is believed to be the first photo taken of the new business. He relocated several doors west of the original location in 1920 and continued serving local customers until he died in 1968. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1911 Bethel School Singing Class
A sign in the photo says “August 5th, 1911. Bethel Singing Class. C.M. Livingston, teacher.” A handwritten note on the back says “Bethel Singing School. Granddad Robertson on Front Row with Eulis as baby.” Oscar Robertson was born in 1885 and died in 1983.
His daughter, Eulis, was born in 1909. Photo believed taken by William W. Robertson (born in 1872), a local blacksmith who also worked as a photographer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1911 Donald School
Donald School was launched in 1880 in what today is Flower Mound, meeting in a two-story building located west of modern Long Prairie Road and south of FM 1171. Elementary students were taught on the lower floor, and upper grades attended on the second floor.
The school closed in the 1940s when the student population became part of the Lewisville Independent School District. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1911 Independence Day Parade 02
Independence Day was celebrated with a Main Street parade during the early years of the 20th Century. Recognizable businesses along the north side of Main Street include J.A. Hatcher Dry Goods, W.D. Milliken & Son Dry Goods, Lambcombs Grocery, and Elbert & Son General Supplies. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1911 Joe Cobb
Joe Cobb posing in a suit and hat outside of Cobb’s Dry Goods in 1911. Joe was the grandson of the store’s founder, Henry Cobb. Joe took over as manager of the family-owned store in 1922, and bought full interest in the store in 1934. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1912 CSA Veteran Jimmy Williams
This photo has been identified as Confederate veteran James C. Williams who, at age 72, walked about 1,500 miles from Lewisville to Macon, Georgia, for a Confederate reunion in 1912. He left Lewisville on February 26 and reached Macon on May 2. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1912 Lewisville Academy
Lewisville Academy was the first Lewisville School District campus, a two-story wooden building on the northwest corner of Cowan and College that opened in 1895. It served students in all grade levels.
The building burned down in 1918, allegedly the result of a student prank that got out of control. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1912 Lewisville School (Polser)
This is one of two Lewisville School photos in the archive that were submitted with a date of 1912. However, this one includes building modifications that are not seen in the other image, including two new windows and changes to the roof and chimneys. That, and the lack of a walking path to the entrance in the other photo, make it likely that the other photo predates this one. In addition, one of the two images is reversed left-to-right. Image is published on page 69 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1912 Lewisville State Bank
Lewisville State Bank was opened in 1910 on the southwest corner of Main and Charles by James Degan. It relocated in 1955 to the northeast corner of Main and Charles. and later was acquired by Commercial Bank of Texas. Image is published on page 64 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1912 Samuel Lusk will – back
In his 1912 will, Samuel V. Lusk bequeathed annual $50 payments to help maintain Old Hall Cemetery and Flowery Mound Cemetery, and left land and $750 cash to Masonic Lodge #201 to oversee the cemetery payments. He also left money to a list of relatives that included members of the Crawford family in Lewisville. Lusk died in 1918. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1912 Samuel Lusk will – front
In his 1912 will, Samuel V. Lusk bequeathed annual $50 payments to help maintain Old Hall Cemetery and Flowery Mound Cemetery, and left land and $750 cash to Masonic Lodge #201 to oversee the cemetery payments. He also left money to a list of relatives that included members of the Crawford family in Lewisville. Lusk died in 1918. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1912 burned Main Street furniture store
J.M. Hendrix’s furniture store was one of several businesses on the north side of Main Street destroyed in a fire that started in J.W. Degan’s Commercial Hotel during the early morning hours of October 12, 1912. The furniture store, hotel, and Henry Baxter’s Grocery Store were total losses. Urban Moore Drugs, J.A. Madlock’s Jewelry Store, and the Lewisville Gin Company received minor damage. One hundreds bales of seed cotton stored at the gin were lost to the fire. Photo published on page 70 of Reflections; and on page 23 of Image of America: Lewisville. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1912- Bob Greer Freight Truck
Early Lewisville farmers moved their crops to the mill, gin, or rail using wagons pulled by mules or horses. Bob Greer is thought to have had the first motorized freight truck in Lewisville, seen in this photograph from about 1912. Image is published on page 71 of Reflections (2002), and on page 16 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton)
The Lewisville Boosters, seen here in a 1913 group photo shot in front of Denton Fire Station #1, came together whenever a community need was identified. Image is published on pages 66-67 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 01
The Lewisville Boosters, seen here in a 1913 group photo shot in front of Denton Fire Station #1, came together whenever a community need was identified. Image is published on pages 66-67 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 02
The Lewisville Boosters, seen here in a 1913 group photo shot in front of Denton Fire Station #1, came together whenever a community need was identified. Image is published on pages 66-67 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 03
The Lewisville Boosters, seen here in a 1913 group photo shot in front of Denton Fire Station #1, came together whenever a community need was identified. Image is published on pages 66-67 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 04
The Lewisville Boosters, seen here in a 1913 group photo shot in front of Denton Fire Station #1, came together whenever a community need was identified. Image is published on pages 66-67 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 05
The Lewisville Boosters, seen here in a 1913 group photo shot in front of Denton Fire Station #1, came together whenever a community need was identified. Image is published on pages 66-67 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 06
The Lewisville Boosters, seen here in a 1913 group photo shot in front of Denton Fire Station #1, came together whenever a community need was identified. Image is published on pages 66-67 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1914 – Good Roads Bond Committee
The automobile age necessitated better road conditions throughout the county. During the Progressive Era, automobile owners formed clubs to lobby the state and federal government for improved streets. The Good Roads Committee of Lewisville also traveled around the area as “trade ambassadors” to promote local businesses, such as the businesses seen in the background of this photo taken in about 1914. Club founder William Wklson Sherrill is seen third from the left. Image is published on page 11 of Reflections (2002), and on page 32 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo originally from the collecton of Henrietta Cobb Sherrill. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1914 – Good Roads Bond Committee – crop
The automobile age necessitated better road conditions throughout the county. During the Progressive Era, automobile owners formed clubs to lobby the state and federal government for improved streets. The Good Roads Committee of Lewisville also traveled around the area as “trade ambassadors” to promote local businesses, such as the businesses seen in the background of this photo taken in about 1914. Club founder William Wklson Sherrill is seen third from the left. Image is published on page 11 of Reflections (2002), and on page 32 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo originally from the collecton of Henrietta Cobb Sherrill. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1914 First Car in Lewisville
Dr. D.F. Kirkpatrick is believed to be the owner of the first private car in Lewisville when he bought this vehicle in 1914 at a local Chevrolet dealership owned by James F. Degan. There also was a new Ford dealership on East Main Street. Image is published on page 30 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1915c Cobb’s Dry Goods exterior
The front facade of Cobb’s Dry Goods in about 1915, with fine dresses displayed in the window and advertising signs posted for Buster Brown Shoes. It is unclear why the display windows are broken. The store was on the south side of Main Street two doors down from Poydras Street (originally called Rawlings Street). Today it is the home of Lewisville Playhouse. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1915c Cobb’s Dry Goods interior
Cobb’s Dry Goods is decked out for Christmas in about 1915. Cobb’s Store opened as a general goods merchant in 1874 at 160 W. Main Street, on the south side of the street between Poydras and Charles. Ownership remained in the Cobb family until 1946, although the store name changed several times. The original wood building was torn down in 1902 and replaced with a brick building that still stands today as the home of Lewisville Playhouse. The store was sold in 1946 to Elmer Williams, who renamed it and operated it into the 1960s. Image is published on page 70 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Loffie and Edna Smith. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1915c Joe Cobb outside Cobb’s Dry Goods 01
Joe C. Cobb stands in front of Cobb’s Dry Goods on the south side of Main Street in about 1915. It is unclear why the display windows are broken. Joe worked in the store most of his life, replacing his uncle, T.W. Cobb, as manager in 1922 and buying full ownership from his family in 1934. Image is published on page 9 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Loffie and Edna Smith. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1915c Joe Cobb outside Cobb’s Dry Goods 02
Joe C. Cobb stands in front of Cobb’s Dry Goods on the south side of Main Street in about 1915. It is unclear why the display windows are broken. Joe was the third generation of Cobbs to run the store when he replaced his uncle, T.W. Cobb, as manager in 1922. Joe bought full ownership of the store from his family in 1934, selling it to Elmer Williams in 1946. Originally from the collection of Loffie and Edna Smith. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1915c Seth Nowlin family
A handwritten note on the back of the photo identifies this as the Nowlin family and lists the names Ray, Foy, and Eldon. According to U.S. Census records, Seth and Ollie Nowlin four sons (Charlie, Ray, Foy, and Eldon) and an older adopted daughter (Lillie Maxwell).
Based on the ages listed in the 1910 Census, the boys were born in about 1901, 1903, 1905, and 1908, and Lillie was born in about 1893. Based on ages and comparing to other photos, the photo likely shows (from left), Lillie, Ray, Foy, Seth, Ollie, and Charlie with Eldon standing in front of Ollie. The identity of the baby in the front-center is unknown. This photo is believed to have been taken by William W. Robertson, a local blacksmith who also worked as a photographer in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1916 – looking east down Main Street (Broadway)
Main Street from west to east in about 1916. A handwritten note on the back says “Lewisville, Texas, Looking East on Broadway.” Photo courtesy of Richard and Linda Smith, Smith Cemetery Association.
1917 – Andrew Robertson family
Andrew Robertson with his wife, Emma, and their five oldest children. Robertson (1876-1930) owned land at the current Bridlewood Estates location. In addition to farming, he operated a sugar mill and produced sorghum syrup from sugar cane. Photo is published on page 42 of “Images of America: Flower Mound.” Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1917 – Etta Mae Jenkins on Poydras Street
Etta Mae Jenkins, oldest child of early Lewisville settlers Sam and Elizabeth Cobb Jenkins, poses for a photo on Poydras Street north of Main in about 1917. The brick building beside her is the east face of the First National Bank building that opened on the northwest corner of Main and Poydras in 1917. Notice the auto garage in the far background, a common site in downtown Lewisville at the start of the Automobile Age. Originally from the collection of Loffie and Edna Smith. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1917 Check – First National Bank
This check was written on May 15, 1917, on a First National Bank of Lewisville account by Mrs. Ella Maxwell (Eleanor Belle Millican Maxwell, 1870-1958). It was payable to J.W. Degan and Co. in the amount of $1.85. First National Bank opened in 1904 on the north side of Main Street two buildings east of Poydras. The bank moved into a new building on the northwest corner of Main and Poydras in 1917. Its two-story decorative white columns are prominent in many 1950s photos of downtown. It closed in February 1955 and its assets were auctioned by the FDIC in 1956.
1917 Photo – Beulah Mae Russell ready for school (front)
Beulah Mae Russell (1901-1992) at age 16 on her way to class, probably at the Bethel School near her family’s farm in the Waketon Community west of downtown Lewisville. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1918 Marjorie Singletary
Marjorie Singletary (1917-2002) in a photo taken August 17, 1918, shortly after her first birthday. She was born in Lewisville to Carl Dixon Singletary and Linnie Maybelle Nowlin. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
1918 Samuel Lusk death announcement
Samuel Vance Lusk was born in 1833 in Monroe, Tennessee, later moving to Texas among the Peters Colony settlers and becoming a prosperous landowner. He died on May 12, 1918, in Bonham and was buried in Old Hall Cemetery in Lewisville. His extended family included the Crawford family in Lewisville. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1919 – First National Bank 01
First National Bank of Lewisville opened in 1904 on the north side of Main Street two buildings east of Poydras. The bank moved into this new building on the northwest corner of Main and Poydras in 1917, about two years before this photo was taken. The building also housed the Lewisville Post Office. Image is published on page 80 of Reflections (2002). Photo originally from the collection of Henrietta Cobb Sherrill. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1920 – 1929
1920 Moving from Lewisville to Grapevine
B. Moir and J. Wiley stand in front of a car surrounded by packed belongings.
Text below the image says “Moving Lewisville to Grapevine” and “Nov 17 1920.” he building behind the men has not been positively identified.
1920c Bethel School teacher Allie Nowlin
This is believed to be Nannie Alien Nowlin (1887-1971), daughter of Henry R. Nowlin and Sarah Rebecca Nowlin. Her name is spelled three ways in different sources – Alien, Ailen, and Aileen – but most records use the first spelling. Alien is referenced in a 1938 newspaper article as a teacher at Bethel School, and in a 1954 newspaper article as a teacher at Lewisville schools. Her obituary says she taught at Bethel School for 50 years and that former students served as pallbearers.
She is buried at Old Hall Cemetery in Lewisville. She never married. A 1919 artifact from Bethel School received from the same donor lists Ailen Nowlin as the primary teacher that school year. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1920c Cobb’s Dry Goods
Henrietta Cobb Sherrill (1876-1954) stands in front of Cobb’s Dry Goods on Main Street in about 1920. To the left is the Liberty Theater, owned by Ruth Jacobson. Originally from the collection of Henrietta Cobb Sherrill. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1920c Cobb’s Dry Goods with label
Henrietta Cobb Sherrill (1876-1954) stands in front of Cobb’s Dry Goods on Main Street in about 1920. To the left is the Liberty Theater, owned by Ruth Jacobson. Originally from the collection of Henrietta Cobb Sherrill. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1920c Lewisville Academy
Lewisville Academy was the first Lewisville School District campus, a two-story wooden building on the northwest corner of Cowan and College that opened in 1895. It served students in all grade levels. The building burned down in 1918, allegedly the result of a student prank that got out of control. There are multiple notes on the back of the photo that say, “Etta & Sam Salmon at the school we attended,” “about 1909 til 1920,” “Lewisville school that fell down in the 20s,” College Street Lewisville School,” and “It fell down and Uncle Dee jumped out the window.”Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1920s – Denton County Boosters
Lewisville residents and other gathered for this 1920s photo to “Help Boost Denton County” as growth made its way into rural areas such as Lewisville. Image is published on page 73 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1920s – Four Men With a Slain Wolf (front)
For farmers, wolves were a constant threat to kill livestock and fowl, so wolves were quickly hunted and killed. Here, Ross Robertson, Oscar Robertson, Charlie Russell, and Herbert Robertson carry a slain wolf hanging by its paws from a horizontal rod. Photo is published on page 51 of Images of America: Flower Mound. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1920s First National Bank – Oscar E Carlisle 1
Oscar Edwin Carlisle (1894-1989) was in his late 20s when he dressed up for a couple of photos on Main Street in front of First National Bank. He was the son of William Carlisle (1859-1906) and Ella Florence Fagg (1868-1953). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1920s First National Bank – Oscar E Carlisle 2
Oscar Edwin Carlisle (1894-1989) was in his late 20s when he dressed up for a couple of photos on Main Street in front of First National Bank. He was the son of William Carlisle (1859-1906) and Ella Florence Fagg (1868-1953). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1920s LHS Baseball Game
Lewisville High School fielded a baseball team before starting a football squad in 1920, playing under the name Lewisville Sluggers before the Farmers nickname was applied to all LHS sports teams. Image is published on page 76 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1920s Neighbors have a picnic
The proliferation of automobiles in the 1920s made it easier for friends and famly to hold impromptu gatherings outside of town, such as this picnic featuring three cars and some very-welcome temporary shade. Image is published on page 72 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Billy Bob Burdette. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1921 First Methodist Church
Henrietta Cobb Sherrill (1876-1954) stands in front of Cobb’s Dry Goods on Main Street in about 1920. To the left is the Liberty Theater, owned by Ruth Jacobson. Originally from the collection of Henrietta Cobb Sherrill. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1921 LHS Boys Basketball Team
1921 LHS Football Team
The 1921 football team at Lewisville High School. The mascot sitting in front is Joe Ratliff. On the kneeling row of players are (second from left) Jack Bonds, (fourth) Garland Orr, and (fifth) J.T. Watson. The rest of the players are unidentified. The coach is Lee Preston, believed to be the first LHS football coach (1920-1923). Only one game result has been documented from the 1921 season, a losses to Diamond Hill. Image is published on page 80 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of Lewisville Independent School District.
1922 – Flowers on Sallie Elizabeth Hayes Gravesite
The fresh gravesite of Sallie Elizabeth Sigman Hayes, the wife of James Hayes and the mother of Arthur Hayes. She was born August 6, 1854, in North Carolina and died June 9, 1922, in Lewisville. She is buried at Old Hall Cemetery in Lewisville. Photo courtesy of Dianne Mayfield.
1922 LHS Boys Basketball Team
The boy at the top of the pyramid holds a basketball with LHS 21-22 written on it. Handwritten notes on the back mistakenly date this as the 1922-23 LHS basketball team; identify five of the players as Sam Salmon (top), Sulton Boyd, Alton Sturdyent, Otho Silk, John Howard Cobb; and name coach Lee Preston, a math teacher who married English teacher Cecil Degan. Photo courtesy of Jane Franklin Salmon.
1923 – Hail Storm
Springtime storms have always been a way of life for Lewisville residents, but they’ve always shown a fascination with hail – a fascination seen in the faces of these three people looking at a pan of hailstones from a 1923 storm. Image is published on page 12 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1923 LHS Girls Basketball Team
The girls basketball team at Lewisville High School during the 1923-24 season. The skirts and stiff shoes they are wearing in the photo likely also were their game uniforms, although girl basketball rules at that time involved a lot less movement and a lot more stationary passing and shooting. Image is published on page 79 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of Lewisville Independent School District.
1923-24 Garza High School – LISD
Garza School students in 1923-24, about the time the Lake Dallas dam was completed. Garza School was one of many rural schools that were absorbed into Lewisville ISD during the first half of the 20th century. Image is published on page 78 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of Lewisville Independent School District.
1924 – Interurban Station
The Texas Interurban Railway connected dozens of North Texas cities between 1901 and 1948. Lewisville was added to the Interurban system in September 1924, when community members gathered for this celebratory photo at the rail station. Service ended in 1932. Image is published on page 46 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1924 Clipping – Interurban newspaper clippings
These newspaper clippings record the start of Texas Interurban Railway service to Lewisville on September 30, 1924. The regional rail system connected dozens of North Texas cities between 1901 and 1948. Lewisville service ended in 1932. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1924 Donald School
Donald School was launched in 1880 in what today is Flower Mound, meeting in a two-story building located west of modern Long Prairie Road and south of FM 1171. Elementary students were taught on the lower floor, and upper grades attended on the second floor.
The school closed in the 1940s when the student population became part of the Lewisville Independent School District. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1924 First Baptist Sunday School
Mrs. Joe C. Cobb was the teacher of this Sunday School class at First Baptist Church. Notice the two boys on the right who wore their Sunday best – sans shoes. Image is published on page 67 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1924 large tree on two trucks (1)
It is unclear why this large tree was cut down and sectioned in 1924, but the large tree pieces loaded on two trucks was of enough interest for townsfolk to pose for photos. The trucks are parked on Main Street in front of First National Bank. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1924 large tree on two trucks (2)
It is unclear why this large tree was cut down and sectioned in 1924, but the large tree pieces loaded on two trucks was of enough interest for townsfolk to pose for photos. The trucks are parked on Main Street in front of First National Bank. Image is published on page 12 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1925 Lewisville Enterprise
Jack Lewis, an Englishman-turned-Texas, bought the weekly Lewisville Enterprise newspaper in 1920. The printing room seen here was on Poydras Street north of Main Street, behind First National Bank. The newspaper office was located on Main Street in one of the Hatcher storefronts. Lewis was elected mayor in 1929, serving one term. He also served as chief of the volunteer fire deparment, played saxophone in the town band, was an elder at First Presbyterian Church, and served as secretary of the Chamber of Commerece. Image is published on page 75 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Naomi Crawford. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1926 Cobb’s Store advertising sign
Cobb’s Store, a general merchandise retailer run by members of the Cobb family from 1874 until 1946, didn’t rely just on word-of-mouth to find customers. This bllboard was posted on the side of James Degan’s livery stable on the northeast corner of Main and Mill streets in 1926. Image is published on page 22 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1926 Elizabeth Cobb Jenkins
Elizabeth Cobb Jenkins (1866-1931) in a 1926 photo. She and her husband, Sam Jenkins, were prominent early settlers in the Lewisville community. Her father, Calvin, and brother, John, were managers of Cobb’s Dry Goods at various times. Originally from the collection of David Nobles. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1926c Curtis Family home
The original home of Bob and Mattie Curtis was located in the Hebron area. Also in this circa-1926 photograph is Donnie Curtis, one of their six children. The family is buried in Old Hall Cemetery in Lewisville. Image is published on page 31 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1927c Main Street election signs
Early municipal elections in Lewisville spawned the tradition of ceremonially “burying” the losers on Main Street, as shown by the makeshift headstones in this 1927 photo. Image is published on page 74 of Reflections (2002), and on page 27 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1928 Bethel School girls basketball team
Members of the 1928 girls basketball team at Bethel School pose with their coach. None of their names are recorded. M. Frie and Anderson Nowlin obtained a land grant as a part of the Peters Colony and donated land to be used for the Bethel School. The Frie Schoolhouse was built in 1871, a simple log cabin with one room that served as both a school and a church. By 1884, it was referred to in legal documents as Bethel-Frie. It was renamed Bethel School when Bethel Church was built in 1882. Bethel School was consolidated with Lewisville in 1940 and the building was torn down.
The land returned to the Nowlin heirs. Highland Village Shopping Center sits on the land that used to contain Bethel School, north of modern FM 407 and west of Highland Village Road. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1928 Bethel School seniors
The senior class of 1928 at Bethel School. None of their names are recorded. F.M. Frie and Anderson Nowlin obtained a land grant as a part of the Peters Colony and donated land to be used for the Bethel School. The Frie Schoolhouse was built in 1871, a simple log cabin with one room that served as both a school and a church. By 1884, it was referred to in legal documents as Bethel-Frie. It was renamed Bethel School when Bethel Church was built in 1882. Bethel School was consolidated with Lewisville in 1940 and the building was torn down.
The land returned to the Nowlin heirs. Highland Village Shopping Center sits on the land that used to contain Bethel School, north of modern FM 407 and west of Highland Village Road. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1928 Bethel School students
Bethel School student in 1928. F.M. Frie and Anderson Nowlin obtained a land grant as a part of the Peters Colony and donated land to be used for the Bethel School. The Frie Schoolhouse was built in 1871, a simple log cabin with one room that served as both a school and a church. By 1884, it was referred to in legal documents as Bethel-Frie.
It was renamed Bethel School when Bethel Church was built in 1882. Bethel School was consolidated with Lewisville in 1940 and the building was torn down. The land returned to the Nowlin heirs. Highland Village Shopping Center sits on the land that used to contain Bethel School, north of modern FM 407 and west of Highland Village Road. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1928c Jen Montgomery and Lizzie Jenkins
Lewisville residents Jen Montgomery and Lizzie Jenkins were visiting in Carrollton when this photo was taken in 1928 (Lewisville had no paved sidewalks at the time). Image is published on page 10 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Loffie and Edna Smith. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1929 LHS Football Team
The 1929 LHS Fighting Farmers football team posed in two rows. Sitting row: Panny Underwood, Lonnie Estes, Maurice Houston, Robert Bradford, Alvin Parker, Herman Bays, S.N. Carruthers, Herb Bradford. Standing row: Ray Johnson, Woodrow Bays, Nip (Alton) McKenzie, Doyle French, Mike Wolters, Coach Luther Scarborough, Pal (Garland) Boyd, Tuck (Alvin) McKenzie, Al O’Brien, Bud Waldrip, Rayford Ligon. Lewisville posted a 6-3-2 record in 1929 that included a 4-2-2 record in District 5-B of the newly formed University Interscholastic League, with wins over Denton, Grand Prairie, and Grapevine.
1929 LHS Football Team – posed
The 1929 LHS Fighting Farmers football team posed in two rows. Sitting row: Panny Underwood, Lonnie Estes, Maurice Houston, Robert Bradford, Alvin Parker, Herman Bays, S.N. Carruthers, Herb Bradford. Standing row: Ray Johnson, Woodrow Bays, Nip (Alton) McKenzie, Doyle French, Mike Wolters, Coach Luther Scarborough, Pal (Garland) Boyd, Tuck (Alvin) McKenzie, Al O’Brien, Bud Waldrip, Rayford Ligon. Lewisville posted a 6-3-2 record in 1929 that included a 4-2-2 record in District 5-B of the newly formed University Interscholastic League, with wins over Denton, Grand Prairie, and Grapevine.
1929c Lewisville Post Office
This photo shows the inside of the local U.S. Post Office in about 1929. The man in the center of the photo with his hand on his chin is Marvin Edwards. On the advice of the Senate, president Franklin Roosevelt appointed Edwards to be postmaster of Lewisville for a four-year term beginning in February 1935.
The post office shared space with First National Bank in a two-story building on the north side of Main Street. The bank closed in 1955, and the tall white columns were removed in 1960, but the remodeled building remains on the northwest corner of Main and Poydras.
Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1930 – 1939
1930c – Henry Russell Family
Henry and Mary Russell moved their family from Liberty (east of Aubrey) to this location on the Simpson property near the current Morriss Road in 1921. With that are three of their children, Beulah Mae, Johnnie, and Lorene. They farmed cotton, corn, peanuts, watermelons, and cantaloupes, and raised chickens, cows, and hogs. Photo is published on page 42 of “Images of America: Flower Mound.” Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1930c – Huffines Motor Company
One of Lewisville’s most prominent businesses around the time of incorporation was Huffines Motor Company, founded by J.L. Huffines and James W. Degan in 1927 in the former City Garage building seen here on the northwest corner of Main and Kealy street. By 1932, the Chevrolet dealership had grown to the point that Degan and Huffines traded buildings and Huffines tore down the wooden livery stable on the northeast corner of Main and Mill to build a new dealership and service building. Both of the Huffines structures still stand today, but serve very different uses. It is believed that J.L. Huffines is the man in a white outfit seen in this photo standing in front of the shop. Employee J.B Redmon is said to also be in the photo somewhere. Photo is published on page 83 of Reflections (2002), and on page 61 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1930c cotton sharecroppers
Photo shows a sharecropping family in a cotton field on the Braden Farm, near current-day Duncan Lane south of FM 3040. Pictured, from left, are Dorothy Moss, Eugene Wells, Arthur Moss, Doris Moss, Houston Wells, Lola Moss, and Imogene Moss (front). Eugene Moss was the grandfather of the photo’s lender, George Gober. He left his family in 1931 and moved to Oklahoma to earn money, but did not return. The four Moss girls in this photo are his daughters. From the lender: “Doris is my mother, the other two are my aunts. The boys, Houston and Eugene Wells, were cousins on my grandmother’s side of the family (she was a Smith), and due to the Depression they had no jobs and their parents could not afford to feed them, so they came to live with the Mosses, work and have a place to be and food to eat.
They had a pig, chickens, goats, and a mule at the farm house as well as a ‘victory’ garden. Ina Belle Smith Moss cooked, washed, and cared for the house and animals while others were working in the fields.” Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1930c prohibition bust
Once home to more than a dozen saloons, Lewisville went dry during Prohibition along with the rest of the nation. To make sure, Ortho Sparks and his posse would often bust up stills and arrest booze runners. Here is posing with some confiscated moonshine and a deck of playing cards. Photo is published on page 86 of Reflections (2002). Originally from the collection of Billy Bob Burdette. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1930s Postcard – Lake Dallas aerial (front)
This postcard shows a color rendering of an aerial view of Lake Dallas. Lake Dallas reservoir was built in 1924-1929. The lake served as a fresh water source for North Texas until Garza-Little Elm Dam was breached on Nov. 1, 1957, to finish filling the new Lewisville Lake.
1930s Round Grove School class photo
This photo shows 33 elementary school children and two teachers, positively identified as Bertha Wilson Griffin (standing left) and Ola Walters (sitting right). The school believed to be Round Grove School, where Griffin is known to have taught second grade in the 1930s.
The photo was acquired at an estate sale for the family of Urby Nowlin (died 2007). Photo courtesy of Tim Phillips.
1930s- Beulah Mae Russell in a Corn Field (front)
Beulah Mae Russell (1901-1992) standing beside 11-foot-tall corn stalks at a farm in the Waketon Community west of downtown Lewisville. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1930s- Russell Twins With Uncle and Cousin (front)
Twin sisters Jeanice and Janice Russell, age 2, posing with their uncle, Lester Robertson, and cousin, Lovera Wilson. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1931 – LHS Senior Class
This photo shows the 21 students in the 1931 senior class at Lewisville High School. Photo courtesy of Bob McKenzie.
1931 Lewisville Grammar School
Lewisville Grammar School in 1931. Lewisville Grammar School opened in 1921 in a three-story red brick building on the southeast corner of Cowan and College, serving all grades. Upper grades moved to the new Lewisville High School in 1949.
The rest of the grades moved to the new Central Elementary School in 1957. Lewisville Grammar School was demolished, the cornerstone preserved at the LISD administration building, and a new College Street Elementary was built on the site in 1960. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1931c LHS Football Team
This is the LHS football team from 1931. This photo probably was taken at Degan Field (also known as Gin Field) just south of Elm Street, where the Farmers football team practiced and played. A handwritten note on the back says, “Lewisville High Football Team, Lester Robertson next to last on right.” People in the photo have been identified as Lonnie Estes (wearing 1), Alvin Parker (4), Lester Robertson (6), Roland Higgins (9), Cornelius Sontag (12), Woodrow Bayes (13), Herb Bradford (15), and Dick Hayes (no number, far right). The man standing in the center of the back row is believed to be head coach R.O. Davis. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1931c LHS football coach R.O. Davis
This man in casual athletic wear holding a football under his left arm has been identified as former LHS head football coach and principal R.O. Davis. Davis was head football coach at Lewisville High School for the 1931 and 1932 seasons, winning a bi-district title in 1932 with a 9-0-1 record.
This photo probably was taken at Degan Field (also known as Gin Field), where the Farmers football team practiced and played, on Charles Street south of Elm Street near the current Post Office building. A copy of this photo previously has been added to the Digital Archive as ITEM #D.2022.004.23.
1932 Clipping – Livery Stable Demolition
This Jan. 31, 1932, clipping, believed to be from the Lewisville Enterprise, announces the planned demolition of the 50-year-old livery stable to make way for a new and growing Huffines Motor Company. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1932 LHS Diploma, Lester Robertson
The first graduating class at Lewisville High School received diplomas in 1901. This graduation certificate was awarded to Lillian Joy Calvert in 1932. Robertson, who later married Lester Robertson, was the mother of this item’s owner, Don Robertson. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1932 LHS Graduating Class
The photo has been identified as the 1932 graduating class of Lewisville High School. Graduate Jeanice Orr Threadgill is third from the left in the front row. The man wearing a suited in the center of the photo is believed to be Lewisville superintendent H.G. Vick. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1934 – Huffines Motor Company Crew
A photocopy of a black and white photograph showing employees of Huffines Motor Company, along with copies of a newspaper clipping describing the photo and identifying most of the people in it. J.L. Huffines opened the first Huffines auto dealership in 1924 in Denton and moved the business to Lewisville in 1927. First located in the former City Garage at Main and Kealy, the dealership moved to the corner of Main and Mill in 1932 and to Stemmons Freeway in 1959.
1934 Hamilton Robbery thank you letter
A photocopy of a Sept. 14, 1934, letter from Texas Gov. Miriam Ferguson to Democratic State Legislator (1932-1938) Bullock Hyder of Denton, thanking him for his help capturing state prison escapee Raymond Hamllton. The letter says Hyder’s $100 reward check was mailed separately. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1934 Hamilton robbery
A 1934 newspaper clipping with the headline “Raymond goes back to prison,” telling of Raymond’s Hamilton return behind bars after robbing First National Bank of Lewisville. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1934 LHS Diploma, Lillian Joy Calvert
The first graduating class at Lewisville High School received diplomas in 1901. This graduation certificate was awarded to Lester Robertson in 1932. Robertson, who later married Lillian Joy Calvert, was the father of this item’s owner, Don Robertson. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1934 LHS Senior Field Trip to Lake Dallas 01
The photo has been identified as the LHS class of 1934 on a field trip to Lake Dallas. A handwritten note on the back says, “Lillian’s High School graduating class outing on Lake Dallas. I did not get to go. Went home and did family laundry so I could go to Denton next day and get my hair curled for graduation. Aunt Edith gave me $3.00 for it.” Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1934 LHS Senior Field Trip to Lake Dallas 02
The photo has been identified as the LHS class of 1934 on a field trip to Lake Dallas. A handwritten note on the back says, “Lillian’s High School class on an outing at Lake Dallas.” Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1934 Overton Hamilton in Dallas
Former Lewisville Enterprise publisher Overton Littleton Hamilton (1867-1934)on photographed in front of a store in Dallas shortly before his death at age 67. Originally from the collection of Billy Bob Burdette. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1935 – Russell twins in buckets as infants
Twin sisters Jeanice and Janice Russell as infants, posed inside two metal buckets in front of a wooden porch. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1935 Huffines employees
The Huffines Motor Company crew of 1934-35. Front row, from left, are Cecil Gober, James Degan, Joe Spears, Aubrey Polser, Cecil Gober, Corrine Meadows, Claude Lester, W.F. Baxer, and (kneeling) Milton Ashton and E.R. Katy England. Back row, from left, are Rosie Clark, T. Clark, Truman Casey, Roy Howard, Elmer Koepf, Lindsay Gober, and James Cook. Photo is published on page 81 of Reflections (2002). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1935 aerial (SMU)
An aerial view of Lewisville as it existed in 1935, ten years after incorporation. Lewisville is marked with red circle #2. Garza-Little Elm Reservoir is marked with red circle #1. Photo courtesy of DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.
1935c – WC Loard Grocery Delivery Truck
Willie Carroll Loard poses with his delivery truck outside W.C. Loard Grocery at 115 West Main, the current location of The Perc Coffeehouse. Photo courtesy of Kerry Vance.
1935c – WC Loard Grocery Interior
Thomas Luther Loard (left) inside his son’s downtown Lewisville business, W.C. Loard Grocery. This store was located at 115 West Main, the current location of The Perc Coffeehouse. Photo courtesy of Kerry Vance.
1936 – LHS class (reprint)
Lewisville High School class of 1936. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1936 – William L. Garrison football crouching
William L. Garrison (father of local football legend Walt Garrison) as an LHS Farmer in 1936. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1936 photo – William L. Garrison football standing
William L. Garrison (father of local football legend Walt Garrison) as an LHS Farmer in 1936. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1936c Russell sisters at Waketon Community
1937 – Janis and Jeanice Russell
Twin sisters Jeanice and Janice Russell, age 2, posing with an unidentified woman. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1937 – LHS class (front)
Lewisville High School class of 1936. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1937 – Russell Twins pulled in a wagon
Twin sisters Jeanice and Janice Russell, age 2, sitting together in a metal Tom Sawyer wagon being pulled by an older girl, Frankie. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1937 – Russell twins with a woman
Twin sisters Janice and Jeanice Russell, age 2, pose in front of the family’s farmhouse in the Waketon Community west of downtown Lewisville. The sisters later graduated toegher from Lewisville High School. Photo is published on page 42 of “Images of America: Flower Mound.” Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1937 – William L. Garrison miler crouching
William L. Garrison (father of local football legend Walt Garrison) as an LHS Farmer in 1937. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1937 – William L. Garrison miler standing
William L. Garrison (father of local football legend Walt Garrison) as an LHS miler in 1937. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1937 Donald Elementary School bus – LISD
A wooden school bus used for Donald Elementary, driven for many years by Frank Crawford (pictured). Donald School was launched in 1880, located west of Long Prairie Road and south of FM 1171. The school closed in the 1940s when the student population became part of the Lewisville Independent School District, making it one of many community and family schools absorbed into Lewisville ISD during the first half of the 1900s. Photo is published on page 85 of Reflections (2002), and on page 94 of Images of America: Flower Mound (2012). Photo courtesy of Lewisville Independent School District.
1937 Donald School
Donald School was launched in 1880 in what today is Flower Mound, meeting in a two-story building located west of modern Long Prairie Road and south of FM 1171. Elementary students were taught on the lower floor, and upper grades attended on the second floor. The school closed in the 1940s when the student population became part of the Lewisville Independent School District. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1937 Double Oak School
Formed in 1884, Double Oak School became a district in 1903 and absorbed Annie Blanton School in 1938. The WPA erected the district’s last building (pictured here) in 1937. In 1966, Double Oak residents sued the Lewisville school district over property values when Lewisville was mandated to absorb the school. Lewisville residents settled the lawsuit themselves in order to allow Lewisville ISD to build its new high school in 1968. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1938 – Charlie Russell cotton field
Charlie Russell stands with his twin daughters, Janis and Jeanice, next to the family’s cotton field in the Waketon Community west of downtown Lewisville. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1938 LHS football team
The 1938 LHS football team. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1938 Lake Dallas Spillway postcard
A color postcard drawing of the Lake Dallas spillway. The spillway bridge was removed after the Garza-Little Elm Dam was breached on Nov. 1, 1957, to finish filling the new Lewisville Lake. The spillway structure, while no longer functional, remains in place in the Hickory Creek area.
1938 Welcoming Committee (original)
A committee was formed to welcome Texas Lt. Gov. Walter Woodul to Lewisville for a 1938 visit. The riders facing forward on Main Street are (from left) J.L. Huffines, Buddy Purnell, Mike Wolters, Aubrey Poler, and George Reed. Photo is published on page 85 of Reflections (2002), and on page 27 of Images of America: Lewisville (2011). Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1939 LHS senior boys
Graduating boys from Lewisville High School in 1939. William L. Garrison, the lender’s father, is in top row fourth from the right. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1939 LHS senior girls
Graduating girls from Lewisville High School in 1939. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1939 LHS seniors
The 1939 graduating class from Lewisville High School. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1939c Curtis Family home
The original home of Bob and Mattie Curtis was located in the Hebron area. Prevously seeen in a c1926 photo, here the house has aged 13 years, crop plants have filled the front yard, and the family has purchased an automoble. The family is buried in Old Hall Cemetery in Lewisville. Photo courtesy of the James Polser Collection.
1940 – 1949
1940 – Charlie Russell and daughters
Charlie Russell (1904-1984) and his twin daughters, Janice and Jeance Russell, about age 6, sit on a farm cultivator hitched to their horse, Old Ruby. Photo is published on page 49 of “Images of America: Flower Mound.” Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1940 – Charlie Russell family
Charlie and Sudie Russell had a family farm in Waketon Community and later moved into Lewisville. Here they are posing with their twin daughters, Janice and Jeanice. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1940 LHS Kid’s Day
A snapshot taken during the annual LHS Kids Day in 1940. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1940 LHS junior-senior banquet
The 1940 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1940 LHS seniors
The 1940 graduating class from Lewisville High School. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1940s – Lester Robinson heads for war
Lewisville-area resident Lester Robertson joined thousands of other Americans who enlisted in the military during World War II. Here is is seen early in his enlistment posing in front of a building at Chandler Air Force Station in Minnesota. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1940s – Oscar Robertson on Purnell Street
Oscar Robertson stands outside his house on Purnell Street in Lewisville. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1940s fishing at Garza Dam
1941 – Dick Hayes with Sockeye (front)
A handwritten note on the back of the photo identifies this as Arthur “Dick” Hayes with his dog, Sockeye, in 1941. The photo was taken on the north side of the Hayes house at the southwest corner of Mill and Church street. The original Lewisville water tower, located downtown beside the Well House until about 1960, can be seen in the background. Arthur D. Hayes was the son of Arthur Hayes and grandson of James Hayes. He was born June 10, 1916, and died December 19, 1972. He is buried at Old Hall Cemetery. Photo courtesy of Dianne Mayfield.
1941 Sam Salmon with trucks
Longtime downtown shopkeeper Sam Salmon is seen here standing with anoither man beside two commercial trucks. Salmon is on the right. A handwritten note on the back identifies the location as “Bill Stewart’s Co. across from the Ford Plant in Dallas.” Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Fanklin.
1942 – Russell Family Chickens
Charlie and Sudie Russelll feed a flock of chickens at their farm in the Waketon Community. They raised chicked and turkey and sold poultry and produce in Lewisville and Denton. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1942 Burdette brothers
1942 Girls on Main Street
A group of local girls poses for a photo on Main Street in early 1942.
1942 Kirkpatrick Family
1942 Main Street
1942 Military Recruits
This photo, taken in Denton near the military recruiting office, shows a group of men at a pre-induction event for enlistees in 1942. Denton County, including Lewisville, answered the call at the start of World War II. This group includes Lewisville residents Lester Robertson and Tim Lester, among others. Photo courtesy of Don Robertson.
1942 Navy Uniform
Irby Nowlin shows off his new U.S. Navy uniform for a group of friends, including Max Goldsmith on the far right. This photo was taken in early 1942 at the corner of Main Street and Charles Street. The two-story white house in the background was home to the J.L. Huffines family.
1942 Oscar and Eva Robertson
Oscar Robertson (1885-1983) and Eva Robertson are seen sitting on the front porch of their house in Old Town Lewisville in 1942. The chairs in the photo were made by Oscar Robertson and are included in the Lewisville Collection. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1942 delayed birth certificate for Henry Baxter
1943 – Charlie Russell Thrashing Peanuts
Charlie Russell stands atop his peanut thrasher during the 1943 harvest. Threshers usually were parked in a field and peanuts were hauled there by wagon. The peanuts were separated into sacks, and the stalks were used for hay. Photo is published on page 46 of “Images of America: Flower Mound.” Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1943 – LHS sophomore Frances Jo Lester
LHS sophomore Frances Jo Lester in her 1943 yearbook photo. Lewisville’s first high school class opened in 1897 and graduated its first five students in 1901. All grades met in the same building until a stand-alone Lewisville High School opened in 1949 on Purnell Street in downtown Lewisville. In 1968, a new LHS campus opened in farmland on the western edge of town, at the school’s current location. The building was largely rebuilt in 2012-2013. Photo courtesy of Cathy Whitmore.
1943 Photo – Arthur D Hayes Marine Corps
Arthur Dixon Hayes served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, including two years at Pearl Harbor in 1944-1945. He was the son of Arthur Hayes and grandson of James Hayes. He was born June 10, 1916, and died December 19, 1972. He is buried at Old Hall Cemetery. Photo courtesy of Dianne Mayfield.
1944 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 1
The first-grade class at Lewisville Grammar School in 1944. Lewisville Grammar School opened in 1921 in a three-story red brick building on the southeast corner of Cowan and College. Upper grades moved to the new Lewisville High School in 1949. The rest of the grades moved to the new Central Elementary School in 1957. Lewisville Grammar School was demolished, the cornerstone preserved at the LISD administration building, and a new College Street Elementary was built on the site in 1960. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1944 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 2
The second-grade class at Lewisville Grammar School in 1944. No student or teacher names were printed with the photo, but former students have identified the teacher as Edna Archer Reed. Photo courtesy of Cathy Whitmore.
1945 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 2
The second-grade class at Lewisville Grammar School in 1945. Lewisville Grammar School opened in 1921 in a three-story red brick building on the southeast corner of Cowan and College. Upper grades moved to the new Lewisville High School in 1949. The rest of the grades moved to the new Central Elementary School in 1957. Lewisville Grammar School was demolished, the cornerstone preserved at the LISD administration building, and a new College Street Elementary was built on the site in 1960. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1945 Photo – Oscar and Eva Robertson
After their children had grown, Oscar and Eva Robertson moved from their Waketon Community farm to a house just south of downtown Lewisville. This photo was taken outside of their house in 1945. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1945 newspaper clipping – Max Goldsmith in Luzon Invasion
This February 22, 1945, clipping from an unknown Denton County newspaper is a photo of six Texans who took part in the first assault waves in Luzon Island. One of the six is Lewisville resident Max Goldsmith,who was born 4/14/1923 in Lewisville and graduated from Lewisville High School in 1940. He became a nationally successful track coach at Andrews High School, and later returned to serve as LHS athletic director (1966-1983). The football stadium was renamed in his honor in 1987. Goldsmith died in Lewisville in 2014.
1945c Children Playing at the Garza-Little Elm Dam
A group of children plays below the Garza-Little Elm Dam and spillway on Lake Dallas. This area would become part of Lewisville Lake just a few years later.
1945c downtown parade with Russell sisters
Twin sisters Jeanice and Janis Russell (b. 1935) of Lewisville ride in western attire past a row of vintage brick buildings. The downtown buildings in the photo background have not been identified but are not in Lewisville. The girls are known to have ridden in parades held in other area cities, including Denton. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1946 – LSB robbery – news clipping 01
1946 – LSB robbery – news clipping 02
1946 All-grades school
Three girls – identified in a handwritten note on the back of the photo as “Nancy Ann, Earline, Nancy Lee Thomas” – pose at the flagpole in front of Lewisville Grammar School in 1946. The school, located at the corner of College Street and Cowan Avenue, housed all grade levels until the new high school campus opened on Purnell Street in 1949. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1946 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 6
The sixth-grade class at Lewisville Grammar School in 1946. Lewisville Grammar School opened in 1921 in a three-story red brick building on the southeast corner of Cowan and College. Upper grades moved to the new Lewisville High School in 1949. The rest of the grades moved to the new Central Elementary School in 1957. Lewisville Grammar School was demolished, the cornerstone preserved at the LISD administration building, and a new College Street Elementary was built on the site in 1960. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1946 Phone Directory page 1
1946 Phone Directory page 2
1947 Salmon’s Food Store exterior
The front exterior of Salmon’s Food Store, located on the first floor of the Masonic Lodge building at 139 West Main Street in Old Town Lewisville. The front window of B&B Grocery is visible on the left side of the photo. A handwritten note on the back dates this photo to 1944, but Salmon purchased the store from Floyd Watson and Nolan Denison in 1947 and this photo is believed to have been taken in that later year. Salmon sold the store in 1970. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1947c Slide – Lewisville Fire Department Engine
The engine shown in the image is a 1947 American LaFrance 750. The first production 700 Series fire engines were delivered to fire departments in March 1947 and remained in production until 1959. The photo appears to have been taken in front of Lewisville’s original fire station on Poydras Street, between Walters and Church.
1948 Crawford Super Market
Crawford’s Super Market was located on the northwest corner of Main and Mill streets.
1948 JW Mays at Lakeview Egg Farm
J.W. Mays purchased Lakeview Egg Farm in 1931 and operated until his death in 1972. It was located in far east Lewisville on Route 3 and had a Frisco telephone number.
1948 Lakeview Egg Farm
J.W. Mays purchased Lakeview Egg Farm in 1931 and operated until his death in 1972. It was located in far east Lewisville on Route 3 and had a Frisco telephone number.
1948 Lewisvile School 01
The exterior of Lewisville Grammar School in 1948, the year before high school classes moved to the new Lewisville High School on Purnell Street. Photo originated from Sue Mays Potter, a 1950 graduate of LHS. Photo courtesy of Vickie Boyer.
1948 Lewisvile School 02
The women in this photo have been identified as the cafeteria workers at Lewisville Grammar School; in 1948. The girl on the far right, wearing an apron, has been identified as Virginia Sue Mays, a 1950 graduate of LHS. Photo courtesy of Vickie Boyer.
1948 Lewisvile School 03
A group of women and girls outside Lewisville Grammar School in 1948, the year before high school classes moved to the new Lewisville High School on Purnell Street. Photo originated from Sue Mays Potter, a 1950 graduate of LHS. Photo courtesy of Vickie Boyer.
1948 Lewisvile School 04
A group of students outside of Lewisville Grammar School in 1948. The girl in the checkered dress has been identified as Ethel Nash (Stockard). The girl directly behind the couple has been identified as Minnie Margaret Mays (Deussen). Photo courtesy of Vickie Boyer.
1948 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 5
The fifth-grade class at Lewisville Grammar School in 1948. Lewisville Grammar School opened in 1921 in a three-story red brick building on the southeast corner of Cowan and College. Upper grades moved to the new Lewisville High School in 1949. The rest of the grades moved to the new Central Elementary School in 1957. Lewisville Grammar School was demolished, the cornerstone preserved at the LISD administration building, and a new College Street Elementary was built on the site in 1960. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1949 Aerial – Old Town Lewisville
1949 LISD School Board
1949 Lewisville High School
1949 Nobles Cleaners
1949 – Lewisville Grammar School teacher Mack Bogard
Lewisville Grammar School faculty member Mack Bogard, who also served as coach for the high school basketball team during the 1948-49 season, is seen in his yearbook photo for that school year. The new high school building on Purnell opened in the fall of 1949. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1950 – 1959
1950 – Arthur Hayes and James Hayes
Pictured are Arthur Hayes and James Hayes Jr., sons of James and Sallie Hayes. Arthur Hayes (1880-1955) served as mayor of Lewisville from 1932 to 1940 and was a cashier at Lewisville State Bank during the Fighting Farmers robbery in 1946. This photo is thought to have been taken in front of the Hayes family home on the southwest corner of Church and Kealy streets. Photo courtesy of Dianne Mayfield.
1950 LHS football player Royce Heath
Lewisville High School football player Royce Heath in 1950. The Farmers finished the 1950 season with a perfect 11-0 record and a Region Championship under head coach Jimmy Bronaugh. Heath graduated from LHS in 1953. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1950 Lewisville Grammar School
1950 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 7
The seventh-grade class at Lewisville Grammar School in 1950. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1950 Photo – Milliken & Sons interior
Opal Stockard (left) and Charles Y. “Mr. Pat” Milliken (right) stand inside the W.D. Millken store in 1950. The dry goods store was prominent on Main Street in downtown Lewisville for more than 85 years, first named W.D. Milliken & Son and later just Milliken & Son. The store closed in August 1965, soon after Charles (the son of W.D.) died in June. Originally from the collection of Renay Stockard. Photo courtesy of Stephanie Stewart.
1950 aerial
1950c Lewisville Dam construction
U.S. Army Corp of Engineers started construction of Lewisville Dam in 1948 for both flood control and as an urban water source. The cities of Dallas and Denton contributed money for construction and received water rights that both cities retain today. Originally named Garza-Little Elm Dam, it was renamed Lewisville Dam by an act of Congress in August 1955. The dam is 32,888 feet long (more than six miles) and at the time of construction was the longest earthen dam in North America. Construction ended in 1955, creating Lewisville Lake on what had been a blend of farmland and oak forests.
1950c Willetta Sherrill
Willetta Sherrill was born in Lewisville in 1917 and used her striking good looks and dancing skills to make her way into the world of Vaudeville performers and showgirls by the time she was 20. She performed alongside Frank Sinatra, Perry Como, and Lawrence Welk. She also was the Cook’s Champagne Girl of 1940. Photo courtesy of Richard and Linda Smith on behalf of the Smith Cemetery Association
1950s Elmer Williams Store
1950s Lewisville FHA with Chester Boyd
1951 – Eighth Grade Graduation, Nancy Thomas
Nancy Lee Thomas crosses the stage during an eighth-grade graduation ceremony held in 1951. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1951 – Macedonia Missionary Church group
A group photo taken inside Macedonia Church in about 1945. The two young girls seated in front beside the low wall are Betty Champion and Lena Wells, about age 13. Champion (born in 1938) is the mother of the photo’s owner. Photo courtesy of Cassie Whitley.
1951 Eighth Grade Graduation, Jane Salmon
Jane Ann Salmon accepts her eighth-grade graduation certificate from Lewisville Grammar School principal Mr. Bogart in 1951. Students visible behind them are Bud Young and Ruth Stockard. Lewisville Grammar School opened in 1921 in a three-story red brick building on the southeast corner of Cowan and College. Upper grades moved to the new Lewisville High School in 1949. The rest of the grades moved to the new Central Elementary School in 1957. Lewisville Grammar School was demolished, the cornerstone preserved at the LISD administration building, and a new College Street Elementary was built on the site in 1960. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1951 LHS football team
This photo, which appears in the 1952 LHS yearbook, shows the 1951 Farmers football team that finished with a 7-2-1 record under head coach Jimmy H. Bronaugh. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1951 LHS quarterback Bill Young in stance
Bill Young was starting quarterback for the Lewisville High School during the 1951 season. The Farmers finished with a 7-2-1 record under head coach Jimmy H. Bronaugh. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1951 LHS quarterback Bill Young throwing
Bill Young was starting quarterback for the Lewisville High School during the 1951 season. The Farmers finished with a 7-2-1 record under head coach Jimmy H. Bronaugh. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1951c Gober Paint and Body Shop
Photo shows (from left) from left are Cecil Gober, Herman Gober, Leonard Brady, and Leonard Gober standing in front of Gobers Paint and Body Shop, located on the west side of Mill Street south of the current-day Sullivan’s BBQ. From the lender: “Cecil was my father, and the other two men were my uncles. I believe Leonard Brady worked at Huffines with my dad and uncles in the ’30s and wanted to open a shop, so joined in with the Gober boys. Later had his own shop on Highway 121.” Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1952 – Woman feeding chickens in Waketon Community (front)
Mary Russell feeds a flock of chickens at a farm in the Waketon Community, west of downtown Lewisville in part of modern-day Flower Mound. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 Church of Christ
Lewisville Church of Christ was organized with eight charter members in the home of J.M. and Carrie Jasper Hendrix in 1886 under the leadership of Elder Terrill Jasper, a pioneer minister of the Church of Christ in Denton County. In 1894, a large frame church building was erected in the northeast part of town. The brick church seen in this 1952 photo was built on West Main Street in June 1917 and expanded in 1948 and 1953. Today, the church is located at the corner of College Parkway and Summit. Photo courtesy of Mark Dungan.
1952 First Baptist Church
First Baptist Church was located on the northwest corner of Church and Charles. It later added a school building, then built a new sanctuary one block to the south. The current church is located at Valley Ridge and Valley Parkway. Photo courtesy of Mark Dungan.
1952 First Presbyterian Church
First Presbyterian Church was established in 1879 in local homes and businesses. The first church building was erected in 1894 at the corner of Church and Charles streets. The church moved into new facilities in 1917 and 1962. The current church building, located at 1002 Fox Avenue, opened in 1977. Photo courtesy of Mark Dungan.
1952 LHS Ag Teacher Chester Boyd
Yearbook photo of longtime Lewisville High School vocational agriculture teacher and FFA sponsor, Chester Boyd. This photo was published in the 1952 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS Homecoming float
Thje senior clas float in the 1952 LHS Homecoming Parade passes Lewisville Florist on Main Street. This photo was published in the 1953 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS Homecoming game, majorettes 01
Lewisville High School students Jane Ann Salmon and Wetonna Underwood enjoy the luau theme at the 1952 Junior-Senior Banquet in the school gymnasium. There are multiple photos and a paper program from this event in the Lewisville Collection. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1952 LHS Homecoming game, majorettes 02
Lewisville High School students Jane Ann Salmon and Wetonna Underwood enjoy the luau theme at the 1952 Junior-Senior Banquet in the school gymnasium. There are multiple photos and a paper program from this event in the Lewisville Collection. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1952 LHS Homecoming majorettes
Lewisville High School students Jane Ann Salmon and Wetonna Underwood enjoy the luau theme at the 1952 Junior-Senior Banquet in the school gymnasium. There are multiple photos and a paper program from this event in the Lewisville Collection. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1952 LHS Homecoming, Jeanice Russell and Bill Young
LHS seniors Jeanice Russell and Bill Young show of their western attire. The couple later married and were active in the Lewisville community throughout their lives. Jeanice Russell Young worked for LISD and retired as school secretary at College Street Elementary School. Bill Young worked as the golf pro at Lewisville Golf Course. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS Junior Class officers
LHS junior class officers in a yearbook photo. Pictured are president Donald Ray Smith (behind the wheel), vice-president Katheryn Proffitt, secretary Virginia Beck, treasurer Shirley Donald, and historian Royce Heath. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS Majorette Jeanice Russell
Lewisville High School majorette Jeanice Russell in 1952. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS Majorettes Jane Ann Salmon and Wetonna Underwood
1952 LHS Majorettes Jeanice and Janis Russell
Lewisville High School majorettes Jeanice and Janis Russell in 1952. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS boys basketball team
Lewisville High School won the District 10-A boys basketball championship in the spring of 1952. Three players – seniors Ralph Morriss, Alfred Stockard, and Johnny Whatley — signed this team photo on their respective images. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS football team
Members of the 1952 LHS Farmers football team that finished the season 6-4 under first-year head coach Albert Kay. Photo courtesy opf Kara Young.
1952 LHS girls basketball team
This photo was published in the 1953 LHS yearbook as the Lewisville High School Farmerettes Basketball Team. People in the photo are identified as (back row, from left) manager Jeanice Russell, Sylvia Barfknecht, Louise Bowery, Peggy McGatlin, coach Ken McIntyre, Bettie Beasley, Pete Silk, Nancy Whatley, manager Dorothy Johnson, (front row, from left) Margaret Mays, Janis Elkins, Shirley Donald, Imogene Williams, Janis Russell, and Jimmy Hilliard. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS graduation, Bill Young
1952 LHS graduate Bill Young accepts his diploma during the annual commencement exercises. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS junior-senior banquet 01
Lewisville High School students enjoy the luau theme at the 1952 Junior-Senior Banquet in the school gymnasium. There are multiple photos and a paper program from this event in the Lewisville Collection. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1952 LHS junior-senior banquet 02
Students dancing among tropical-themed decorations in the school gymnasium during the 1952 Junior-Senior Banquet. There are multiple photos and a paper program from this event in the Lewisville Collection. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS junior-senior banquet 03
A group of eight girls pose in front of a tropical-themed decoration in the school gymnasium during the 1952 Junior-Senior Banquet. There are multiple photos and a paper program from this event in the Lewisville Collection. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 LHS junior-senior banquet 04
1952 LHS junior-senior banquet 05
1952 Lewisville school group at Sandy Lake Park
LHS seniors Jeanice Russell and Bill Young show of their western attire. The couple later married and were active in the Lewisville community throughout their lives. Jeanice Russell Young worked for LISD and retired as school secretary at College Street Elementary School. Bill Young worked as the golf pro at Lewisville Golf Course. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1952 Plate – Churches of Lewisville
1952 Plate – Churches of Lewisville (scan)
1952 lake construction
1952 lake constuction (DenCo)
1953 – Devil’s Bowl racers (reprint)
Carvis O. Hasten, Dub Wilkes, and Cecil L. Gober (in hat) in front of a current Devil’s Bowl racer #248. Photo was taken in in a lot beside C.O. Hasten Service Station on Mill Street. Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1953 – Devil’s Bowl racers (reprint)
George R. Gober, approx. age 7, on top of Devil’s Bowl racer #248 at Carvis Hasten Station on Mill Street. Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1953 – Devil’s Bowl racers (reprint)
Cecil L. Gober – painter, welder and semi mechanic – sitting behind the wheel of Devil’s Bowl racer #248 ready to test his car. Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1953 – Huffines Motor Company employees
1953 – Sandlot baseball kid (reprint)
George R. Gober, 1952 or 1953, in the back yard of 320 Milton Street, ready for sandlot baseball. Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1953 LHS Cheerleaders
Lewisville High School cheerleaders during the 1952-53 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953 LHS Farmers Harvest newspaper staff
The staff of the Farmers Harvest student newspaper during the 1952-53 school year. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1953 LHS Football Team
The 1953 Lewisville Farmers football team finished the season with a 7-2 record under head coach Albert Kay. This photo was published in the 1954 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953 LHS Graduation, Jeanice Russell
Lewisville High School graduate Jeanice Russell accepts her diploma during the 1953 commencement ceremony. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1953 LHS Homecoming Court 01
Connie Romans, the 1953 Homecoming Queen for Lewisville High School, with the rest of the homecoming court. This photo was published in the 1954 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953 LHS Homecoming Court 02
Connie Romans, the 1953 Homecoming Queen for Lewisville High School, with the rest of the homecoming court. This photo was published in the 1954 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet servers 01
Student servers wearing Dutch-style costumes for the 1953 LHS Senior-Junior Banquet. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet servers 02
Student servers wearing Dutch-style costumes for the 1953 LHS Senior-Junior Banquet. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953 LHS Powder Puff team
Twelve girls in football uniforms prepare for the annual Powder Puff game at Lewisville High School in 1953. The group includes Janis Russell, wearing number 18. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1953 LHS Senior Play
A group of seven male students pose in girls’ costumes for the LHS senior play in 1953. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1953 LHS sophomore class
The sophomore class at Lewisville High School during the 1952-53 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953 Main Street Lewisville
1953 Photo – Devil’s Bowl racers (reprint)
Two future Devil’s bowl racers, #225 and a raw material, parked in a lot beside C.O. Hasten Service Station on Mill Street. Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1953 Photo – Devil’s Bowl racers (reprint)
George R. Gober, approx. age 7, in front of Devil’s Bowl racer #248 at Carvis Hasten Station on Mill Street. Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1953 Photo – LHS Homecoming Parade, Decorated Truck
A decorated antique truck is parked on Main Street either before or after the 1953 LHS Homecoming Parade. The background shows some of the roof line on the north side of the street and there is a business sign visible in the background to the left, on the south side of the street. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953 Photo – Sandlot baseball kid (reprint)
George R. Gober, 1952 or 1953, in the back yard of 320 Milton Street, ready for sandlot baseball. Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1953 lake construction
1953 – Bill Young and Jeanice Russell
LHS seniors Jeanice Russell and Bill Young show of their western attire. The couple later married and were active in the Lewisville community throughout their lives. Jeanice Russell Young worked for LISD and retired as school secretary at College Street Elementary School. Bill Young worked as the golf pro at Lewisville Golf Course. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1953c four teen girls around town 01
Marijohn Crawford, Bobbie Gay Goodman, Wetonna Underwood, and Jane Ann Salmon pose for a photo during an off-day traveling around Lewisville. The photo location is believed to be near the north end of Highway 77 where it reached Lewisville Lake. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953c four teen girls around town 02
Marijohn Crawford, Bobbie Gay Goodman, Wetonna Underwood, and Jane Ann Salmon pose for a photo during an off-day traveling around Lewisville. The photo location is believed to be near the north end of Highway 77 where it reached Lewisville Lake. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1953c four teen girls around town 03
Marijohn Crawford, Bobbie Gay Goodman, Wetonna Underwood, and Jane Ann Salmon pose for a photo during an off-day traveling around Lewisville. The turn sign was at the north end of US 77 to keep people from driving into the new Lewisville Lake. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 – LHS Homecoming Parade queen nominees
Homecoming Queen nominees Judy Wolters and Mozelle Jernigan ride down Mani Street in the back of a convertible during the 1954 LHS Homecoming Parade. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954 – LHS Homecoming Parade, Sam Salmon (front)
Two men, identified as Mr. Groves and Sam Salmon, sit at a table drinking coffee in the bed of a decorated antique truck as it passes First National Bank on Main Street. The photo has been dated to the 1953 LHS Homecoming Parade. The photo appears in the 1954 LHS yearbook, which identifies the men as “Ex-Farmers.” Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 – LHS football game stands
Lewisville High School fans fill the stands at Farmers Field for a game played during the 1954 varsity football season. The Farmers posted a 9-1 record under head coach Albert Kay, finishing second in District 10-A. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954 – LHS football team
The Lewisville High School football team in 1954. The Farmers posted a 9-1 record under head coach Albert Kay, finishing second in District 10-A. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954 Homecoming parade
The Lewisville High School majorettes march past First National Bank on Main Street during the 1954 LHS Homecoming Parade. Photo shows the north side of Main Street from the bank building to the Huffines Motors building. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Cheerleaders
Lewisville High School cheerleaders during the 1954-55 school year included Sheila White, Judy Wolters, Barbara Ann McGee, Deloris Wooldridge, Marijohn Crawford, and Ruth Stockard. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Farmerettes squad 01
The LHS Farmerettes squad during the 1954-55 school year. This photo is published in the 1955 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Farmerettes squad 02
The LHS Farmerettes squad during the 1954-55 school year. This photo is published in the 1955 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Football Players
Lewisville High School football players Terry Don Parks, Herbert Taylor, Bob McKenzie, Everett “Sleepy” Reynolds, Dan Smith, Gordon Salsman, and Richard Morriss during the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Homecoming Parade Majorettes
The LHS Majorettes march past First National Bank on Main Street in the 1954 LHS Homecoming Parade. The front three Majorettes, left to right, are Louise Bowery, Nancy Thomas, and Mary Lynn Groening. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954 LHS Homecoming Parade Royalty
1954 LHS Homecoming Parade, Sam Salmon
Five students pose with a truck that is heavily decorated with LHS markings that is parked in front of Urban Moore Drugs on Main Street. The students have been identified as 1955 LHS graduates Bob McKenzie (at the wheel), Jane Ann Salmon, Janice Elkins, Ruth Stockard, and Nancy Thomas. The photo is published in the 1954 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Homecoming Parade, decorated truck
Five students pose with a truck that is heavily decorated with LHS markings that is parked in front of Urban Moore Drugs on Main Street. The students have been identified as 1955 LHS graduates Bob McKenzie (at the wheel), Jane Ann Salmon, Janice Elkins, Ruth Stockard, and Nancy Thomas. The photo is published in the 1954 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet cooks
Elta Salmon, Irene Slater, and Nellie Gaston prepare food for the LHS Junior-Senior Banquet in 1954. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Majorette Jane Ann Salmon 01
Jane Ann Salmon, a 1955 graduate of Lewisville High School and an LHS majorette during the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Majorette Jane Ann Salmon 02
Jane Ann Salmon, a 1955 graduate of Lewisville High School and an LHS majorette during the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Majorettes 01
Lewisville High School majorettes during the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Majorettes 02
Lewisville High School majorettes during the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS Majorettes 03
Lewisville High School majorettes during the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS basketball player Imogene Williams
Imogene Williams, a 1954 graduate of Lewisville High School and a member of the girls basketball team during the 1953-54 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS basketball player Jane Ann Salmon 01
Jane Ann Salmon, a 1955 graduate of Lewisville High School and a member of the girls basketball team during the 1953-54 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS basketball player Jane Ann Salmon 02
1954 LHS basketball player Jane Ann Salmon 03
Jane Ann Salmon, a 1955 graduate of Lewisville High School and a member of the girls basketball team during the 1953-54 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS basketball player Janette Broughton
Janette Broughton, a 1955 graduate of Lewisville High School and a member of the girls basketball team during the 1953-54 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS basketball player Mary Lynn Groening
Mary Lynn Groening, a 1955 graduate of Lewisville High School and a member of the girls basketball team during the 1953-54 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS basketball player Peggy McGatlin
Peggy McGatlin, a 1956 graduate of Lewisville High School and a member of the girls basketball team during the 1953-54 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS boys basketball team
The boys basketball team at Lewisville High School during the 1953-54 school year. Pictured are (left to right, back to front) Manager Pat Beck, Clarence Myers, Carroll Hasten, Bobby Williams, Bobby Milligan, Bobby Kimmel, Bob McKenzie, Coach A.L. Kay, Dan Smith, Jerry Elbert, Everett Reynolds, Mike Dennison, Herbert Taylor, Terry Parks, Gordon Salsman, Tommy Stockard, and Richard Morris. This photo was published in the 1954 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS football game 01
Live action during an LHS football game played during the 1954 football season. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS football game 02
Live action during an LHS football game played during the 1954 football season. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS football game 03
Live action during an LHS football game played during the 1954 football season. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS senior friends
Lewisville High School students Tommy Stockard, Jane Salmon, Jimmy Ramsey, Wetonna Underwood, Bob McKenzie, and Marijohn Crawford in a photo taken in October 1954 during their senior year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 LHS tumblers
1955 LHS graduate Jane Ann Salmon and 1956 LHS graduate Carol Durham in a photo taken during the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 Lewisville Grammar School , Grade 1
The first-grade class at Lewisville Grammar School in 1954, with teacher Mrs. Marshall. The students include Cathy Crawford, Joanna Baya, Sissy Holt, George Gober, Bill Hawk, Kenny Nelson, Susie Irby, Rita Sue Cozby, Lillian Bailey, Ginger Eads, Gail Lewis, Beverly Andrews, Gail Miller, Pam Veal, Susan Crawford, Vicki Chappel, Jill Morris, Butch Flanagan, James Bragg, Jay Waldrip, Tommy Nations, Teddy Daniels, and Bill Nix. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1954 Photo – Girls at SMU Baton School
Jane Ann Salmon (front), Mary Lynn Groening (second from front), and two other girls pose on a dorm room bed during the SMU Baton School in August 1954. Salmon and Groening were 1955 graduates of Lewisville High School. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1954 Rhotons Dept Store
The inside of Rhotons Department Store in a yearbook advertising photo. Students in the photo are Nancy Thomas, Mary Lynn Groening, and Janis Elkins. Photo published on Page 109 of the 1955 LHS Yearbook. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954c – Front of Urban Moore Drugs
LHS student Nancy Thomas (right) and a classmate pose for a photo in front of Urban Moore Drugs on Main Street. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954c – LHS Farmerettes performing
The Lewisville High School Farmerettes drill team performs at Farmers Field during the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954c – LHS Farmerettes squad
The Lewisville High School Farmerettes drill team for the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954c – Sombreros
A group of Lewisville High School students wear Mexican-style dresses and sombreros for an unnamed school event during the 1954-55 academic year. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954c LHS band group
1954c LHS football game stands
1954c Outside Whatley’s Store
Long-time Lewisville locals gather outside Whatley’s Store on Main Street to trade stories and maybe a little bit of gossip. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1954c Walt and Bill Garrison on College Street
Brothers Walt and John Garrison on College Street in Lewisville. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1955 – Alta Dixon King
Alta Dixon, one of the four Dixon sisters.
1955 – LHS Farmerettes
The Lewisville High School Farmerettes drill team for the 1954-55 school year. Photo published on Page 64 of the 1955 LHS Yearbook. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 – LHS Farmerettes tumblers
LHS Farmerettes tumblers Joan Lester and Carol Durham. Photo published on Page 68 of the 1955 LHS Yearbook. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 – LHS Graduate Nancy Thomas
Lewisville High School graduate Nancy Thomas crosses the stage during the 1955 LHS Commencement Ceremony. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 – LHS Majorettes 01
Lewisville High School majorettes Jane Salmon, Nancy Thomas, Louise Bowery, Margaret Gaston, Mary Lynn Groening, and Janis Elkins. Photo published on Page 66 of the 1955 LHS Yearbook. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 – LHS Senior Class Officers (front)
LHS Senior Class Officers during the 1954-55 academic year were (from left) Vice President Bobbie Goodman, President Joe Westbrook, Secretary Jane Ann Salmon, and Treasurer Nancy Lee Thomas. Photo published on Page 10 of the 1955 LHS Yearbook. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 – Lucy Dixon Hatcher
Lucy Dixon Hatcher, one of the four Dixon sisters and the wife of local shopkeeper J.A. Hatcher.
1955 – Maud Dixon Moore
Maud Dixon Moore, one of the four Dixon sisters and the wife of longtime local druggist Urban Moore.
1955 – Maybell Dixon Hayes
Maybell Dixon Hayes, one of the four Dixon sisters and the wife of local banker Arthur Hayes.
1955 – Tower Bay buildings
Tower Bay Realty with the namesake tower in the background. Photo is dated to November 1955. Photo courtesy of Carolyn Collinsworth.
1955 Bank cashier ER Wolters
United Press caption: “E.R. Wolters, above, found shot to death in his car near here Tuesday. Wolters was the cashier of the First National Bank of Lewisville which closed today after bank examiners found $253,000 missing. Wolters’ death was ruled suicide. United Press Telephoto from files.” The back of the photo is stamped with the date Feb. 4, 1955. Wolters’ body was discovered on January 24, 1955, by John H. Crawford. First National Bank closed that day and never reopened.
1955 Bills Market
The interior of Bill’s Market, located on the southwest corner of Mill and Church streets, in a yearbook advertising photo. Photo published on Page 109 of the 1955 LHS Yearbook. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 Crawford Grocery and Market
The interior of Crawford Grocery, located on the northwest corner of Main and Mill streets, in a yearbook advertising photo. Photo published on Page 100 of the 1955 LHS Yearbook. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 Interstate 35 RIbbon Cutting
Five men participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony for Interstate 35E in 1955, with the Main Street bridge in the background, as a crowd of people stand on a bridge railing behind them. The man holding the scissors is an unidentified federal official, and the man on the left is an unidentified state official. The other three men, from left, are County Commissioner Ernest Hilliard, County Judge Jack Gray, and Mayor F.C. Connor. Photo courtesy of Ron Hilliard.
1955 Kirkpatrick and Wilson
The exterior of Kirkpatrick and Wilson, located on the southeast corner of Main and Mill streets, in a yearbook advertising photo. Photo published on Page 104 of the 1955 LHS Yearbook. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 LHS Farmerettes
1955 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet 02
A scene from the LHS Junior-Senior Banquet held during the spring of 1955. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet 03
A scene from the LHS Junior-Senior Banquet held during the spring of 1955. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 LHS Majorettes 02
Members of the Lewisville High School majorettes during the 1954-55 academic year. Photo courtesy of Nancy Carroll.
1955 LHS decorated truck
1955 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 2
The second-grade class at Lewisville Grammer School in 1955, with teacher Mrs. Griffin. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1955 Photo – LHS Junior Senior Banquet 01
Lewisville High School students in formal attire stand alongside banquet tables during the 1955 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet held in the school gymnasium. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1955 Salmon’s Food Store interior 01
The interior of Salmon’s Food Store with Sam, Elta, and Jane Salmon, and Gerald Slater. Salmon’s Food Store was located on the first floor of the Masonic Lodge building at 139 West Main Street in Old Town Lewisville. He bought the store from Floyd Watson and Nolan Denison in 1947 and sold it in 1970. A note with the photo says, “Sam Salmon would always ask his customers, ‘Do you need any soda, salt, baking powder, toothpicks, or matches?’” This photo is printed in the advertising section of the 1955 Lewisville High School yearbook. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1955 Salmon’s Food Store interior 02
Salmon’s Food Store was located on the first floor of the Masonic Lodge building at 139 West Main Street in Old Town Lewisville. He bought the store from Floyd Watson and Nolan Denison in 1947 and sold it in 1970.
1955 highway dedication clipping
1955 paving Main Street
1955 paving Main Street corrected
1955c Central Baptist Church interior
1955c LHS students
1956 – Central ES teacher Ms. Young
Lewisville Grammar School teacher Ms. Young in a 1956 school picture. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956 – LHS Homecoming Parade
A large squared float with girls in formal dresses and a side sign that says “We’re On Top” in the 1956 LHS Homecoming Parade, which preceded a 53-6 Homecoming win over Mansfield. Andy Theater and a Rexall Drugs sign are visible in the background. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956 – LHS Homecoming Parade
A flatbed truck with a replica school house and a side sign that says “School Days” in the 1956 LHS Homecoming Parade, which preceded a 53-6 Homecoming win over Mansfield. The west edge of First National Bank and the east side wall of Andy Theater are visible in the background. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956 LHS Homecoming float 01
Football players between two football goalposts on a float sponsored by Lewisville Feed Mill in the 1956 LHS Homecoming Parade, which preceded a 53-6 Homecoming win over Mansfield. The Andy Theater and east edge of Lewisville State Bank are visible in the background. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956 LHS Homecoming float 02
A float featuring a small trailer with large floral attachments in the 1956 LHS Homecoming Parade, which preceded a 53-6 Homecoming win over Mansfield. The Lone Star Gas building and North Poydras Street are visible in the background. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956 LHS Homecoming float 03
1956 LHS Homecoming float 04
A draped trailer carrying a cafe scene in the 1956 LHS Homecoming Parade, which preceded a 53-6 Homecoming win over Mansfield. The west edge of First National Bank and the east edge of Andy Theater are visible in the background. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956 LHS Homecoming float 05
A float carries a student in formal attire sitting in front of a rainbow arch, with a side sign that says “Rainbow of Happiness,” in the 1956 LHS Homecoming Parade. The parade preceded a 53-6 Homecoming win over Mansfield. First National Bank is visible in the background. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 3
The third-grade class at Lewisville Grammer School in 1956, with teacher Mrs. Evans. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956 photo – LHS Homecoming Parade
Three girls in formal dresses sitting in front of a student on an elevated chair on the Sophomores float in the 1956 LHS Homecoming Parade, which preceded a 53-6 Homecoming win over Mansfield. The Masonic Lodge building and two adjacent buildings to the east are visible in the background. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956 – LHS Homecoming Parade
A float carries a student in formal attire sitting in front of a rainbow arch, with a side sign that says “Rainbow of Happiness,” in the 1956 LHS Homecoming Parade. The parade preceded a 53-6 Homecoming win over Mansfield. First National Bank is visible in the background. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1956c First Presbyterian Sunday School
1957 – Arthur D Hayes Masonic Lodge
Arthur D. Hayes (1916-1972) speaks inside Lewisville Masonic Lodge #201 during the group’s 100th anniversary celebration in January 1957. Lewisville Masonic Lodge #201 was chartered on Jan. 23, 1857, and was named the John B. Denton Lodge. The Lodge met in the second floor of a building on the north side of Main Street from 1891 until 1981, minus two years (1918-1920) while it as being rebuilt aftert the 1918 Main Street fire. Hayes, the son of former Lewisville Mayor Arthur Hayes, was a Past Master of the Lodge and was giving the Address of Welcome according to the event program. Photo courtesy of Dianne Mayfield.
1957 – Central ES teacher Mr. Burkhead
Central Elementary School was built in 1954 as a modern elementary school with a library, cafeteria, and gymnasium. The same building houses Central Elementary School today.
1957 Before & After Filling Garza Little Elm Reservoir
Lewisville Dam construction ended in 1955, but the lake did not fill until 1957 when extended heavy rains ended a severe seven-year drought. Photo was published on May 2, 1957. Associated Press caption: “NO WATER THEN, PLENTY NOW – These views of the Garza-Little Elm reservoir show the difference recent heavy rains in Texas have made in water supply. Top photo shows only a trickle of water in a diversion stream last summer as Texas was in its seventh year of drought. Bottom photo shows the same scene yesterday, water at a height of 519 feet and billions of gallons of water in the lake. Note auto on lake bottom in top photo. The filled lake indicates the end of water rationing for Dallas and other nearby towns. (AP Wirephoto).” City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
1957 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 4
The fourth-grade class at Lewisville Grammar School, taught by Mrs. Tipps, in the 1956-57 academic year. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1957c Aerial – Church Street in Old Town
1957c Aerial – Main Street in Old Town
1957c aerial photo
1958 – Charlie Orr and George King (cropped)
This 1958 photo shows C.W. Orr standing outside of his Main Street drugstore alongside employee George King, who later would open his own Main Street drugstore. Photo courtesy of Bob McKenzie.
1958 – Downtown Lewisville (cropped)
Downtown Main Street from the west, as it existed in May 1958. Among the businesses seen in this photo are Lewisville State Bank (opened 1955), Beasley’s Fine Jewelry (opened 1954), Andy Theater (built in 1953, burned in 1965), and First National Bank of Lewisville (opened 1917, closed 1955, dismantled 1961). Photo courtesy of Jackie Davis.
1958 – George Gober at Kings Drug
King’s Drugs opened in 1954 at 117 W. Main Street, the current location of Beasley’s Fine Jewelry. This photo shows George Gober at the store shortly after he started working there in 1958. The drugstore moved in 1965 to Lewisville Center, the first strip shopping center in Lewisville, located on the southwest corner of Mill and Elm. Owner George King died in 1966 and the store was sold by the family in 1969, but continued operating as Rexall King’s Drugs into the 1980s. Photo courtesy of George Gober.
1958 Central Elementary School, Grade 5
Central Elementary School was built in 1954 as a modern elementary school with a library, cafeteria, and gymnasium. The same building houses Central Elementary School today. This is the fifth-grade class aught by Mrs. Young in 1958. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1958 First Baptist Church fire
Fire desctroyed one building at First Baptist Church in 1958. First Baptist Church started in 1869 as Holford Prairie Church in a two-story building where Old Hall Cemetery is currently located on McGee Lane. Members voted in 1882 to build a new church on the corner of Charles Street and Church Street. There were multiple additions and renovations at the site before the church moved to its current location on Valley Ridge Boulevard in the mid-1990s. Photo courtesy of Gene Lewis.
1958 Lewisville Elementary class, Grade 3
The third-grade class at Lewisville Elementary School, taught by Mrs. Lockhart, in 1958. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
1958 Lewisville Elementary staff
Faculty and staff at Lewisville Elementary School in 1958. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
1958 Lewisville middle school band
The first Lewisville Junior High band was directed by Gordon Collins in 1958. This photo was taken in the band hall building across Charles Street from the high school campus on Charles Street. Photo courtesy of Beverly Andrews.
1958 aerial – UNT Collection
1958 aerial LLELA – UNT Collection
1958 aerial Lake Park – UNT Collection
1958 aerial Tower Bay – UNT Collection
1958c SH 121 at IH 35
1959 B&B Food Store interior
B&B Food Store was opened in 1946 by twin brothers Hubert and Rubert Bond on the northeast corner of Main and Poydras. The store also used the names W.D. Bonds Grocery and Market and B&B Self Service Grocery in 1940s and 1950s newspaper advertisements. The brothers dissolved their partnership in 1957 and Rubert became the sole owner. This photo was taken in 1959. The man on the far right is Rubert Bond. The woman second from left is Ladelle Walters. The woman third from left is Rubert’s wife, Daisy Bond, grandmother of the donor. Standing to her left are LHS students Linda Liles and Eugene Hastings. This photo was published in the 1959 LHS yearbook. Photo courtesy of Mark Dungan.
1959 Bills Market
The interior of Bill’s Market on Mill Street in 1959. Pictured are (from left) George White, age 16; Ruth Ann White, Adolf “Tiny” Treese, Lavael “Six” Gunn, Alan Chambers, and market owner Bill White. A prominent advertisement seen in the photo is for Max Frederick Air Conditioning in Lewisville.
Bill White began running the market for his brother-in-law and two partners in 1935. He was paid 50 cents a day plus a room at his brother-in-law’s house. He bought the market in 1939.
Bill’s Market moved in 1941 to 121 N. Mill Street, where it was the middle of three businesses that shared a building on the southwest corner of Mill and Church. Ernest Dickson had a store on the south end and Parks Mobil Service Station was on the north end. Bill’s Market later encompassed the entire building.
White sold the market in 1946. The building burned down a week later, and he bought the property back and constructed a new building and re-opened Bill’s Market. He sold the business for good in 1968 to Bill and Bobbye Westbrook.
Photo courtesy of Mike Frye.
1959 Central Elementary School, Grade 6
1959 Huffines Chevrolet
1959 Huffines Motor Company (left)
1959 Huffines Motor Company (right)
1959 Lewisville Feed Mill
Clyde Edmonds: Charlie Stacey’s Cushman motorscooter, Charley Stacey, Don (Doak) Crawford, Dan Broughton, Carrol Hasten, Jim Archer- 1953 Homecoming. This car was built in Lewisville by Carvis Hasten and raced at the Devil’s Bowl.
Clyde Edmonds: West Main St., Lewisville, 1953. Looking east from I-35 toward downtown, on the left are the homes of the Max Goldsmiths, and then the Gentry’s. The street had yet to be paved.
Harper Grocery and Station (Sinclair) was located on the northeast corner at the intersection of Mill Street and Purnell, kitty-corner across the street from the old Lewisville High School on Mill Street in the early 1960s. (Owned by James E. Harper) Contributed by Kay Harper Strickland.
Team photo for the 1955 Lewisville High School Farmers football team.
Lewisville High School football players Terry Don Parks, Herbert Taylor, Bob McKenzie, Everett “Sleepy” Reynolds, Dan Smith, Gordon Salsman, and Richard Morriss during the 1954-55 school year. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1960 – 1969
1960 Cindy Denison with bicycle at LV Leader sign
The girl has been self-identified as Cindy Denison: “I won a new bicycle for selling 25 subscriptions to the Lewisville Leader newspaper.”
1960 First National Bank building
First National Bank of Lewisville opened in 1904 on the north side of Main Street two buildings east of Poydras. The bank moved into a new building on the northwest corner of Main and Poydras in 1917. Its two-story decorative white columns are prominent in many 1950s photos of downtown. It closed in February 1955 and its assets were auctioned by the FDIC in 1956. A new Lewisville National Bank opened in 1963 on northbound 35E south of Main.
1960 First National Bank building
First National Bank of Lewisville opened in 1904 on the north side of Main Street two buildings east of Poydras. The bank moved into a new building on the northwest corner of Main and Poydras in 1917. Its two-story decorative white columns are prominent in many 1950s photos of downtown. It closed in February 1955 and its assets were auctioned by the FDIC in 1956. A new Lewisville National Bank opened in 1963 on northbound 35E south of Main.
1960 Lewisville Water Tower
Photo show northbound Interstate 35 with the Lewisville water tower visible; printer stamp has a date of February 1960. The tower was built in 1959 and went into service in early 1960.
1960 Row of women seated under hairdryers
Lewisville Leader published its first edition on Thursday, June 16, 1960, as a weekly local paper that also provided Lewisville coverage for the Denton Record-Chronicle. Allen Bogan of Corinth was the first editor/publisher and Mrs. Jane Rankin was the women’s news editor. The newspaper office was on the southeast corner of Church and Poydras streets. It absorbed the Lewisville Enterprise in January 1962.
1960c First Presbyterian Church Good Housekeepers
1960c Water Tower on 35E – as built
1960s Main Street core
1960s Salmon’s Food Store interior
Salmon’s Food Store was located on the first floor of the Masonic Lodge building at 139 West Main Street in Old Town Lewisville. He bought the store from Floyd Watson and Nolan Denison in 1947 and sold it in 1970.
1960s new police uniforms – clipping
1961 – school bus stranded in blizzard
1961 Farmers Harvest
1961 Jenkins siblings
1962 First Presbyterian Church groundbreaking – clipping
1962 James Polser clipping
1962 LHS basketball team
1962 MKT Depot Building
1962 Route 66 filming 01
1962 Route 66 filming 02
1962 Route 66 filming 03
1962 Route 66 filming 04
1962 Route 66 filming 05
1963 Effects of Prolonged Drought
1964 – Farmer on a Tractor in a Field
Working farms were starting to become scarce in areas close to Lewisville by 1964 when this photo was taken of Charlie Russell driving a tractor through this field in the Waketon Community. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1964 LHS Powder Puff Game
1964 Lewisville Leader
1964 Lewisville Leader – pullover raincoats fashion
1964 Muscular Dystrophy Workers
1964 Vera Nobles clipping
1965 Bill Chew – first Black LHS graduate
Bll Chew was one of 13 children born fo Mark and Dorothy Mae Chew, who had moved from Mississippi to Denton in 1958 so Mark could take a new mechanic job. They bought a lot and built a house in Lewisville in 1959. Bill attended Fred Moore Colored High School in Denton until Lewisville High School integrated in the fall of 1964 and he moved to LHS for his senior year, where he played fullback on the varsity football team. He became the school’s first Black graduate in the spring of 1965.
1965 Lewisville Leader
1967 Dan Cobb and Charlie Birdsong 05May67
1967 LHS Homecoming Parade
1967 Lewisville Junior High School band
1968 Aerial – no label
1968 LHS Majorettes
1969 Lewisville National Bank – 35E location
1969 NHRA Spring Nationals – Pete’s Patriot (Clinton Wright)
1969 Tommy Jane Archer
Lake Rescue Squad
Lewisville in 1965. Scanned from 1965 LHS Yearbook. Looking north on I-35… Lake City USA is the subdivision on the west side of the highway, directly across the highway is Huffines Shopping Center. Fox Avenue is just a dirt trail through the fields on the west side.
Mrs. Graham with her 1962-63 first-grade class at College Street Elementary School in Lewisville.
Mrs. Stewart with her 1967-68 third-grade class at Central Elementary School in Lewisville.
1970 – 1979
1970 Dallas International Speedway
1970 Fighting Farmers VW with cheerleaders
1970 Lewisville Hotel
1970 Lewisville Hotel with Thelma Maxwell
1970 Lewisville Hotel with Velma McDonald
1970 Lewisville Hotel with trailer
1970s Main Street at 35E
1970s Main Street utility project
1970s Texas Instruments missile (SMU)
1970s aerial – 35 and Main Street
1971 City Jail Cell
1971 Fighting Farmers VW with cheerleaders
1971 Photo – Super Cyclops before crash
1971c freight train at Main Street
1972 Jerry Rheudasil 01
1972 Jerry Rheudasil 01 (cropped)
1972 Jerry Rheudasil 02
1972 Jerry Rheudasil 02 (cropped)
1972 LHS Football Practice
1972 LHS Football Sidelines
1972 LHS football team
1972 Rheudasil stud horse
1972 Walt Garrison family
1972 Western Week – editors gunfight
1972 Wilcher-Moore Lumber
1972c Main Street core
1973 DFW Airport construction
1973 IHRA Longhorn Nationals – Beauty Queen.jpg
1973 Squire Haskins aerial
1973 Walt Garrison and George Allen (front)
1973 Walt Garrison whittling (front)
1973c Water Tower on 35E – first Farmer logo
1975c aerial of Interstate 35 southbound
1976 Davis Quintuplets 02
1976 Lewisville City Council
1976 Lewisville Hotel fire 01
1976 Lewisville Hotel fire 02
1976_08_05 hotel fire
1977 aerial – Slide1
1977 aerial – Slide2
1978 newspaper clipping
1979 Aerial – Creek culvert under Valley Parkway expansion
1979 Aerial – Creek culvert under Valley Parkway expansion
1979 Aerial – Lewisville Valley neighborhood
1979 Aerial – Lewisville Valley neighborhood
1979 Aerial – Lewisville Valley neighborhood (annotated)
1979 Aerial – Lewisville Valley neighborhood (annotated)
1979 Aerial – Main and Valley intersection
1979 Aerial – Main and Valley intersection (annotated)
1979 photo – Aerial Photo of Central Fire Station
This aerial photo, dated to early 1979, shows the Main and Valley Parkway intersection from the northwest. Visible landmarks include Lewisville High School, the LHS baseball field, and Central Fire Station.
1979 photo – Aerial Photo of City Maintenance Yard
1979 photo – Aerial Photo of City Maintenance Yard
1979 photo – Aerial photo of Lewisville High and Central Fire
This aerial photo, dated to early 1979, shows the Main and Valley Parkway intersection from the northwest. Visible landmarks include Lewisville High School, the LHS baseball field, and Central Fire Station.
Debbie Davis is surrounded by her five babies and two of the large stuffed animals the family received as birth gifts.
LHS Marching Band in the 1974 Homecoming Parade on Main Street.
Lewisville Center was one of the city’s first strip retail centers, located at the southwest corner of Mill and Elm streets. Long-time residents referred to it by its most prominent tenant, King’s Drugs, even decades after the drugstore closed. Seen in this photo are the Ben Franklin dime store, an appliance store, and a shoe store. This center was purchased and demolished in the late 2010s to make way for the South Village residential development.
Photo taken April 1, 1976. Caption: Paul Rice, who was a football sensation at Lewisville High School and went to the University of Southern California only to spend the 1975 season sitting on the bench, says he’ll play football this fall if not at USC, some other school. (AP Wire Photo) Paul Rice played on the 1972 LHS football team that was the first in school history to reach the state championship game.
The city’s first strip shopping center was built on the southwest corner of Mill and Elm streets. Long-time locals called it the King Drug Center years after the drugstore closed. The shopping center was later replaced by the South Village neighborhood.
The grandstands and parking lot were full for this 1973 race at Dallas International Motor Speedway. The track closed later the same year and the land was sold for commercial development.
The grandstands were full for this 1973 race at Dallas International Motor Speedway. The track closed later the same year and the land was sold for commercial development.
1980 – 1989
1980 Lewisville Rodeo Team
1981 Lewisville City Council (3.16.81)
1981c Southeast Aerial of Main and 35
1982 Pat Yancey at Lewisville Rodeo Arena 01
1982 Pat Yancey at Lewisville Rodeo Arena 02
LHS sophomore Pat Yancey rides a bull named Snickers during the Region III Open held on Octover 24, 1982, at Lewisville Rodeo Arena. Yancey’s father, William, is standing behind the chute wearing a brown coat and grey hat. The man standing in the arena at the far left is Michael Fomby, the son of longtime Lewisville Saddle Club president Claude Formby. Photo courtesy of Pat Yancey.
1983 College Street ES faculty
1987 Lewisville City Hall
1987 Vista Ridge Mall construction sign 01
1987 Vista Ridge Mall construction sign 02
1987 Vista Ridge Mall phase two construction
1990 – 1999
1993 Lewisville versus Aldine MacArthur
Houston Post photo by Adrees Batif, taken 12/18/1993. MacArthur High School guard Shadrick Georg (57) lies on the field seconds after Lewisville High School won the 5-A Division II Championship on Saturday afternoon in the Astrodome.
First state football championship in school history; LHS defeated Aldine MacArthur, 43-37, in the Astrodome to complete a 15-0-1 season.
1994 College Street ES faculty
1995 College Street ES faculty
1995 Macedonia Baptist Church history
1996 LHS Football Team
1996 LHS football team at Texas Stadium
1996 Main Street at 35E
1997c Water Tower on 35E – second Farmer logo
2000 – 2009
2000 Huffines Building 01
2000 Huffines Building 02
2000 Huffines House
2000 Insite Information Services
2000 K&W Auto Supply
2000 Lewisville Feed Mill 01
2000 Lewisville Feed Mill 02
2000 Lewisville Feed Mill 03
2000 Lewisville ISD annex
2000 Main Street North Side 01
2000 Main Street North Side 02
2000 Main Street North Side 03
2000 Main Street North Side 04
2000 Main Street South Side 01
2000 Main Street South Side 02
2000 Main Street South Side 03
2000 Main Street South Side 04
2000 Main Street from the east
2000 Old Town house at 306 W Main
2000 Old Town house at 320 and 334 W Main
2000 Temple Baptist Church 01
2000 Temple Baptist Church 02
2001 – City Hall Groundbreaking
Lewisville Mayor Gene Carey reached 80 years into his closet for this 1920s outfit that he wore at the November 2001 groundbreaking ceremony for the new City Hall on Church Street in historic Old Town Lewisville. The City Council decided to put the new building there as a way to increase visitor traffic into the downtown district and to spark private investment in Old Town properties. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
2001 – Mayor Gene Carey at July 4 festival
Mayor Gene Carey poses on the stage at Red White & Lewisville, the City’s concert and fireworks show previously held in a parking lot of Vista Ridge Mall. Carey was elected Mayor in 2000 and served until 2009, making him the longest-serving mayor in Lewisville’s history.
2002 – Dedication of 9-11 Memorial
Lewisville Mayor Gene Carey and Fire Chief Rick Lasky participate in a September 11, 2002, dedication ceremony for a 9/11 Memorial installed on Valley Parkway in front of Fire Station #1. The centerpiece of the memorial was a section of steel box beam that came from the collapsed World Trade Center South Tower. The memorial was temporarily removed in 2023 to accommodate the construction of the Tittle McFadden Public Safety Center. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
2002 City Hall construction
2002 Main Street core
2002 Main and Mill intersection
2002 Medical Center of Lewisville construction
2002 Oleen and Velma (McDonald)
2003 – City Hall Ribbon-Cutting
Mayor Gene Carey cuts the ribbon during the October 1, 2003, opening celebration at Lewisville City Hall, located on Church Street in Old Town Lewisville. Pictures from left to right are Councilmember Greg Tierney, Councilmember Tim Blair, Councilmember Dean Ueckert, Mayor Gene Carey, Chamber of Commerce Chairman Gary Lewis, Councilmember Rudy Durham, architect John Peveto, and Councilmember Mike Nowels. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
2003 – Mayor Adds City Hall Brick
Mayor Gene Carey added one of the last bricks in the new Lewisville City Hall on July 14, 2003, as the building neared completion. City Hall opened at the end of September. The brick installed by Mayor Carey is on the third-floor balcony wall and is marked with an engraved nameplate. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
2003 LHS Class of 1955 Reunion
2003 Photo – Vista Ridge Mall Play Area Dedication
Lewisville Mayor Gene Carey participated in a dedication ceremony on July 25, 2003, for a new soft-play area that was installed at Vista Ridge Mall and was sponsored by the City of Lewisville and by Medical City of Lewisville. The mall saw many changes during the next 20 years, including two ownership changes and two name changes, but the play area was still largely intact in mid-2025. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
2005 Old Town – City Hall Plaza
2005 Old Town – Main Street north side
2005 Old Town – Wayne Ferguson Plaza 01
2005 Old Town – Wayne Ferguson Plaza 02
2005 Old Town – Wayne Ferguson Plaza 03
2005 Old Town Main Street South Side
2005 Old Town Main Street South Side
2005 Old Town North Poydras Street
2005 Old Town Old Well House
2006 – Mayor Gene Carey and Fire Chief Tim Tittle
Fire Chief Tim Tittle and Mayor Gene Carey enjoy a light moment during a Lewisville Fire Department ceremony on April 19, 2006. The department was welcoming a new ATF-trained dog named Daisy. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
2008 Ray Mayfield at Feed Mill
Lewisville Feed Mill Truck
2010 – Present
2017 LHS Homecoming Parade – Kerbow and Tittle
Police Chief Russ Kerbow and Fire Chief Tim Tittle were grand marshals in the 2017 Lewisville High School Homecoming Parade. Both men were 1974 graduates of LHS and are members of the LHS Hall of Fame.
2021 Myanmar Protest at City Hall 01
2021 Myanmar Protest at City Hall 01
2021 Myanmar Protest at City Hall 02
2021 Myanmar Protest at City Hall 02
2022 Fighting Farmers Water Tower removal 01
2022 Fighting Farmers Water Tower removal 02
2022 Fighting Farmers Water Tower removal 03
2022 Fighting Farmers Water Tower removal 04
2022 Fighting Farmers Water Tower removal 05
2022 Fighting Farmers Water Tower removal 06
2025 – Five Decades of Police Chiefs at Ribbon-Cutting
Nearly five decades of Lewisville police chiefs pose for this photo taken during the ribbon-cutting celebration at the Tittle McFadden Public Safety Center on June 24, 2025. Pictured are Lewisville’s longest-tenured chief, Steve McFadden (seated, served 1977-2007), Chief Brook Rollins (standing, served since 2024), Chief Kevin Deaver (served 2018-2024), and Chief Russ Kerbow (served 2007-2018). Photo by Kaniece Tell. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
2025 – Mayors and Council Members at Ribbon-Cutting
Past and present come together for this photo taken during the ribbon-cutting celebration at the Tittle McFadden Public Safety Center on June 24, 2025. Pictured, from left, are former Mayor Ralph Johnson (served 1977-1979), Denton County Commissioner Bobbie Mitchell (served as mayor 1993-2000), Mayor TJ Gilmore, former Mayor Ann Pomykal (seated, served 1985-1987), Councilmember Ronnie Cade, and Councilmember Bob Troyer. Photo by Dawn Cobb. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
2025 – Tittle McFadden Public Safety Center Ribbon-Cutting
Lewisville Mayor TJ Gilmore and retired Lewisville Police Chief Steve McFadden (seated) cut the ribbon on June 24, 2025 to celebrate completion of the Tittle McFadden Public Safety Center. They are flanked on both side by city, county, and state officials. Photo by Kaniece Tell. City of Lewisville / The Lewisville Collection.
