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.
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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
1877 Lewisville School receipt
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
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.
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 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.
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 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
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 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
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.
906 – 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 ourtesy of Kara Young.
1910 – 1919
1910 Farmers Day (SMU)
1910c Henry Baxter’s Grocery Store
1910c Seth Nowlin family
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 01 – cropped
Walkers and horse-drawn floats in a parade on Main Street. Writing on the print identifies this as “Lewisville, Tx, July 4th 11” and “Photo by Eggleston.” Main Street businesses vizible in the photo include Lewisville State Bank, E.F. Stover Grocery, Elbert & Son General Supplies, Lamecombs Grocery, Millican & Son Dry Goods, J.A. Hatcher Dry Goods, and Young & Smith Drugs. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
1911 Independence Day Parade 02
Walkers and horse-drawn floats in a parade on Main Street. Writing on the print identifies this as “Lewisville, Tx, July 4th 11” and “Photo by Eggleston.” Main Street businesses vizible in the photo include Lewisville State Bank, E.F. Stover Grocery, Elbert & Son General Supplies, Lamecombs Grocery, Millican & Son Dry Goods, J.A. Hatcher Dry Goods, and Young & Smith Drugs. Photo courtesy of Jane Salmon Franklin.
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.
1911 Moore Drug
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 Academy (Polser)
1912 Lewisville State Bank
1912 Lewisville State Bank calendar
1912 Samuel Lusk will – back
1912 Samuel Lusk will – front
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.
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton)
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 01
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 02
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 03
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 04
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 05
1913 Lewisville Boosters (in Denton) – clip 06
1915 First Car in Lewisville
1915c Cobb’s Dry Goods exterior
1915c Cobb’s Dry Goods interior
1915c Etta Mae Jenkins on Poydras Street
1915c Joe Cobb outside Cobb’s Dry Goods 01
1915c Joe Cobb outside Cobb’s Dry Goods 02
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.
1916c Good Roads Bond Committee
1916c Good Roads Bond Committee – crop
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.
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.
1918 Samuel Lusk death announcement
1920 – 1929
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.
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
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 (original)
1920s First National Bank – Oscar E Carlisle 1
1920s First National Bank – Oscar E Carlisle 2
1920s LHS Baseball Game
1920s Neighbors have a picnic
1921 First Methodist Church
1921 LHS Boys Basketball Team
1921 LHS Football Team
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 Student, Otho Silk, John Howard Clark; and name coach Lee Preston, a math teacher who married English teacher Cecil Degan. Photo courtesy of Jane Franklin Salmon.
1923 LHS Girls Basketball Team
1923 hail storm
1923-24 Garza High School – LISD
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
1924 Interurban Station corrected
1924 Interurban clipping
1924 large tree on two trucks (1)
1924 large tree on two trucks (2)
1925 Lewisville Enterprise
1926 Cobb’s Store advertising sign
1926 Elizabeth Cobb Jenkins
1926c Curtis Family home
1927c Main Street election signs
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
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 – Huffines Motor Company
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
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.
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 LHS Diploma, Lester 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.
1932 livery stable clipping
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
1934 Hamilton robbery
1934 LHS Diploma, Lillian Joy Calvert
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.
1935 Huffines employees
1935 Overton Hamilton in Dallas
1935 aerial (SMU)
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 – 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
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 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)
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
1940 – 1949
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 Edmonds farm
1940s Huffines Motor Company
1940s LHS girls basketball team
1940s Main Street core
1940s fishing at Garza Dam
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 Burdette brothers
1942 Girls at the Train Depot
1942 Girls on Main Street
A group of local girls poses for a photo on Main Street in early 1942.
1942 Kirkpatrick Family
1942 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 2
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 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 Enterprise special
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 newspaper clipping – Max Goldsmith in Luzon Invasion
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
1946 LHS Pep Squad
1946 LHS Pep Squad drill
1946 LHS Pep Squad whole
1946 LHS football game
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 Moore Pharmacy receipt
1946 Phone Directory page 1
1946 Phone Directory page 2
1947 LHS graduating boys
1947 LHS graduating class
1947 LHS graduating girls
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
1950 – 1959
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 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, 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 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
Black and white photo, approx. 9.75 inches by 7.5 inches, showing the LHS boys basketball team and coach. A handwritten note above the players says “Lewisville Farmers District 10-A Champions.” Three players signed the photo on their respective images.
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 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)
Per the donor: “Lot on Mill Street by C.O. Hasten Service Station, two future Devil’s bowl racers, #225 and a raw material.” 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 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, 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 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
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 football team 02
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 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 Grammer School in 1954, with teacher Mrs. Marshall. 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
1954c LHS band group
1954c LHS football game stands
1954c Outside Whatley’s Store
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 – 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 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
1955 Crawford Grocery and Market
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
1955 LHS Farmerettes
1955 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet
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 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet 01
1955 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet 01
1955 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet 02
1955 LHS Majorettes 02
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 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 – 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)”
1957 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 4
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.
1957c Aerial – Church Street in Old Town
1957c Aerial – Main Street in Old Town
1957c aerial photo
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.
1958 First Baptist Church fire
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, and a destructive fire in 1958, 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
1958 Lewisville Elementary staff
1958 Lewisville middle school band
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
1959 Bills Market
1959 Bills Market
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.
J.L. Huffines opened Huffines Motor Company in Lewisville in April 1927, but by 1932 had outgrown the space and erected this new building at the northeast corner of Main and Mill. This building remains in place as of 2021.
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 LHS Powder Puff Game
1964 Lewisville Leader
1964 Lewisville Leader – pullover raincoats fashion
1964 Muscular Dystrophy Workers
1964 Vera Nobles clipping
1965 Lewisville Leader
1967 Bill Chew – first Black LHS graduate
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 – 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 City Hall construction
2002 Main Street core
2002 Main and Mill intersection
2002 Medical Center of Lewisville construction
2002 Oleen and Velma (McDonald)
2003 LHS Class of 1955 Reunion
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
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
