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* {{cite book |title=History and Reminiscences of Denton County |last=Bates |first=Edward |year=1918 |publisher=McNitzky Printing Company |location=[[Denton, Texas]] |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=U8kBAAAAMAAJ |oclc=2133818 |ol=23400877M |lccn=19004337 |ref=harv}}
Runfellow ( talk) 18:15, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
what would be a good photo? I live in the dallas area and I might be able to snap a picture. W3stfa11 01:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
The new city hall. Ianwashere
The 2010 Census Demographic Profiles are out, and I can get to them, but it won't let me create any sort of permanent link. Once I can, I'll update a LOT of the info here with newer stuff. AndLibertyForAll ( talk) 15:48, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Added new census info. Runfellow ( talk) 05:32, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
The employment figures for Vista Ridge Mall don't look right. The mall itself probably employees a few dozen office and maintenance workers. Everyone else works at individual stores. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.252.200.202 ( talk) 05:16, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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I would add this to the above review but I'm really tired and the formatting stuff just isn't working with me today.
As requested by Jezhotwells, here are quotes from the references mentioned (numbers are as of the July 5 revision of the article)
When Lewisville was incorporated the northern boundary was established along the meandering Prairie Creek. The MK&T Railroad easement was the eastern boundary. The southern boundary was Purnell Street. The western boundary was a survey line extending from Prairie Creek south along a parallel line with Edmonds Lane.
Lewisville sits in the Eastern Cross Timbers region of the State, between the Blackland Belt and the Grand Prarie. [...] Lewisville's history dates to the early 1840s [...] The head of the development company was W.S. Peters, publisher of the song "Oh Suzannah"[sic] [...] The actual site of Lewisville was originally called Holford's Prairie Settlement after John and James Holford
To the south on Long Prairie the Presbyterians established a church and camp ground; they called it Flower Mound.
The railroad meeting apparently was well attended [...] It was announced that the railroad would reach the Denton County line by July 1. Lewisville had raised $15,000 with another $5,000 promised.
In 1925 Denton County had 165 miles of all-weather roads serving much of the county. But it was not until October 1931 that the "Lewisville Gap" was closed and Denton was provided with a direct all-weather route to Dallas.
In 1987, the Vista Ridge Mall opened southwest of downtown Lewisville, and it is still a major retail hub today, featuring stores like [...]. The mall anchors a large real estate expansion that includes strip malls, housing, recreational areas, business parks, and an amphitheater.
I told Harvie how after I took him with me on a Hogan research trip to Fort Worth and left him for the week out at Hank Haney's golf ranch in Lewisville, Jack came away with a fine golf swing.
After purchasing and merging The Enterprise with The Leader, Clements gave the newspaper a major facelift.
With the onslaught of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s in which African-Americans pushed for equal ights and school desegregation, "southern newspaper and local television stories downplayed the news or refused to cover it at all. The South's editorial voices had been virtually silent, with occasional exceptions." [quoted from Folkerts and Teeter, Voices of a Nation]
Clements was one of the exceptions.
He addressed the issue of integration. Although Lewisville had a small African-American population at the time, Clements, to the chagrin of some readers and the Ku Klux Klan, openly but cautiously supported desegregation. He received threats for his position.
With his failing health and Lewisville growing larger, Clements on March 1, 1971 sold his newspaper to Harte-Hanks Community Newspapers for $125,000.
Runfellow ( talk) 19:02, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
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* {{cite book |title=History and Reminiscences of Denton County |last=Bates |first=Edward |year=1918 |publisher=McNitzky Printing Company |location=[[Denton, Texas]] |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=U8kBAAAAMAAJ |oclc=2133818 |ol=23400877M |lccn=19004337 |ref=harv}}
Runfellow ( talk) 18:15, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
what would be a good photo? I live in the dallas area and I might be able to snap a picture. W3stfa11 01:53, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
The new city hall. Ianwashere
The 2010 Census Demographic Profiles are out, and I can get to them, but it won't let me create any sort of permanent link. Once I can, I'll update a LOT of the info here with newer stuff. AndLibertyForAll ( talk) 15:48, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
Added new census info. Runfellow ( talk) 05:32, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
The employment figures for Vista Ridge Mall don't look right. The mall itself probably employees a few dozen office and maintenance workers. Everyone else works at individual stores. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.252.200.202 ( talk) 05:16, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
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I would add this to the above review but I'm really tired and the formatting stuff just isn't working with me today.
As requested by Jezhotwells, here are quotes from the references mentioned (numbers are as of the July 5 revision of the article)
When Lewisville was incorporated the northern boundary was established along the meandering Prairie Creek. The MK&T Railroad easement was the eastern boundary. The southern boundary was Purnell Street. The western boundary was a survey line extending from Prairie Creek south along a parallel line with Edmonds Lane.
Lewisville sits in the Eastern Cross Timbers region of the State, between the Blackland Belt and the Grand Prarie. [...] Lewisville's history dates to the early 1840s [...] The head of the development company was W.S. Peters, publisher of the song "Oh Suzannah"[sic] [...] The actual site of Lewisville was originally called Holford's Prairie Settlement after John and James Holford
To the south on Long Prairie the Presbyterians established a church and camp ground; they called it Flower Mound.
The railroad meeting apparently was well attended [...] It was announced that the railroad would reach the Denton County line by July 1. Lewisville had raised $15,000 with another $5,000 promised.
In 1925 Denton County had 165 miles of all-weather roads serving much of the county. But it was not until October 1931 that the "Lewisville Gap" was closed and Denton was provided with a direct all-weather route to Dallas.
In 1987, the Vista Ridge Mall opened southwest of downtown Lewisville, and it is still a major retail hub today, featuring stores like [...]. The mall anchors a large real estate expansion that includes strip malls, housing, recreational areas, business parks, and an amphitheater.
I told Harvie how after I took him with me on a Hogan research trip to Fort Worth and left him for the week out at Hank Haney's golf ranch in Lewisville, Jack came away with a fine golf swing.
After purchasing and merging The Enterprise with The Leader, Clements gave the newspaper a major facelift.
With the onslaught of the civil rights movement in the early 1960s in which African-Americans pushed for equal ights and school desegregation, "southern newspaper and local television stories downplayed the news or refused to cover it at all. The South's editorial voices had been virtually silent, with occasional exceptions." [quoted from Folkerts and Teeter, Voices of a Nation]
Clements was one of the exceptions.
He addressed the issue of integration. Although Lewisville had a small African-American population at the time, Clements, to the chagrin of some readers and the Ku Klux Klan, openly but cautiously supported desegregation. He received threats for his position.
With his failing health and Lewisville growing larger, Clements on March 1, 1971 sold his newspaper to Harte-Hanks Community Newspapers for $125,000.
Runfellow ( talk) 19:02, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
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