


1960
Lewisville’s population is 3,956 people.
1961
The Lewisville United Council of Church Women begins raising money to open a public library. The first library opens in the basement of the United Presbyterian Church.
1962
An episode of the “Route 66” television show is filmed in Lewisville, which was
renamed “Kilkenny” for the program. The episode aired in April on CBS.
1963
Voters opt to become a Home Rule City by a vote of 225-26. John C. Dodson hired as the city’s first professional city manager.
Bill R. Weaver elected as mayor.
1963
Lewisville’s school board votes to integrate its campuses, becoming one of the first districts in Texas to do so after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954. Because new classrooms needed to be built to accommodate the new students, classrooms did not integrate until Fall 1964.




1965
Garland Franks hired as city manager.
1967
Johnny Sartain hired as city manager.
1968
Lewisville High School opens its doors in a new campus at the corner of FM 1171 and Valley Parkway, west of most Lewisville development. This, combined with a major annexation the next year, started a population shift from east to west.
1969
Sam Houston elected as mayor.
The Lewisville Valley area is annexed into Lewisville, adding 2,500 acres of land and hundreds of new residents.
About 120,000 people come to Lewisville to attend the Texas International Pop Festival, a three-day event featuring such stars as Janis Joplin, B.B. King and Led Zeppelin.
1970
Lewisville’s population is 9,264 people.
1971
The city builds its first stand-alone public library, located on Church Street near the site of the current Lewisville City Hall.



1971
U.S. Corps of Engineers officially changes the name of Garza-Little Elm Reservoir to “Lewisville Lake,” 16 years after Congress passed a 1955 bill authored by Rep. Frank Ikard that named the Lewisville Dam.
1972
David Denison elected as mayor.
Lewisville High School reaches its first football state championship game, losing in the Class 3A finals to Uvalde, 33-27.
1973
Construction begins on the city’s water and wastewater treatment plants.
1974
Construction begins on a hospital at the corner of Main Street and Interstate 35, currently operating as Lewisville Medical Center. The hospital opened in 1976.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport opens.
1975
The Lewisville Quintuplets, four boys and a girl, are born to Jerry and Debbie Davis on July 18, the first recorded quintuplet birth in Texas.







1976
Phyllis Adams is hired as Lewisville’s first female police officer.
Six years after the U.S. Corps of Engineers officially changed the name of Garza- Little Elm Reservoir to “Lewisville Lake,” and 22 years after Congress passed a 1955 bill authored by Rep. Frank Ikard, signs finally are erected proclaiming “Lewisville Lake.”
1977
Ralph Johnson elected as mayor.
Darwin McGill hired as city manager.
1979
Clarence R. Myers elected as mayor.
1980
Lewisville’s population is 24,273 people.
1981
Troy White elected as mayor.
1983
Wayne Ferguson elected as mayor.
1985
Ann Pomykal elected as mayor.
Chuck Owens hired as city manager.
1987
Donny Daniel elected as mayor.
1989
Lewisville City Hall (now the Municipal Annex) and the new Lewisville Public Library open at 1197 W. Main Street.
Vista Ridge Mall opens. The mall was purchased in 2017 and renamed Music City Mall.