The City of Lewisville has more than 400 print and digital photos in the Lewisville Collection, dating from as early as the 1870s. These photographs have been obtained from many different sources, most prominently when long-time Lewisville residents and descendants of early community members recognize that donating to a preserved and documented collection is the best way to ensure that the Lewisville Story continues to be shared by future generations. These photos help bring Lewisville’s history to light and put relatable human faces on long-ago events. This page presents a sampling of photographic images contained in The Lewisville Collection.
Email [email protected] if you are interested in donating to the archive or loaning photos or videos for digital scanning.
Pre-1900
1870s Elisha and Nancy Stover Tintype
This is a tintype of Charles Elisha “Lish” and Nancy Stover, early settlers in the area of Lewisville. He died in 1872. The photo likely dates to the 1860s and the image is very clear.
1877 Lewisville Colored School receipt
1877 Lewisville School receipt
1878 Rhoda King land patent 01
1878 Rhoda King land patent 02
1880s Kealy Cotton Gin receipt
1880s Railroad Handcar
1883 Sam Jenkins building a wagon
1885 Skillern Drugstore
1887 Photo – Group of Western Men
6-25-87 Lewisville TX
Group Western Men
1 black in doorway
1889 Guy Bourland
1890c Hatcher Dry Goods
1891 registered mail receipt – back
1891 registered mail receipt – front
1894 Cobb family singers
1894 Overton Hamilton family
1895 Henry Baxter at harvest
1896 Stockard Family home
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
1898 Sherrill-Cobb marriage license
1898c Main Street core
1899 Lewisville Enterprise supplement (polser)
1900 – 1909
1900 Frank Combs farm
1900 Tom Young, Tallest Man in Lewisville
1900 Tom Young, Tallest Man in Lewisville
1900 women in a buggy 1
1900 women in a buggy 2
1900 women picking cotton
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
1900c Main Street core
1900c Stover Store and Degan Livery Stable
1900c Stover Store and Degan Livery Stable
1901 LHS First Graduating Class – clipping
1902 – LHS Graduating Class – LISD photo
1902 Elizabeth Cobb Jenkins
1902 First Methodist Church on Walters 01
1902 Tom Fagg with watermelon
1902c Poydras Street north of Main
1903c Lewisville wooden schoolhouse
1903c Main Street
1903c Main Street – reduced
1903c Sam and Lizzie Jankins family
1904 Lewisville teacher Frank B. McMath, teacher at Chinn’s Chapel School
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 – LISD photo
1905c Faith Trimble
Faith Trimble, believed to be the daughter of Thomas and Nancy Trimble and wife of Davis E. Nowlin, and buried in Chinn’s Chapel Cemetery (1884-1944). She lived in the Waketon community west of Lewisville.
1906 Downtown
1906 Receipt – James Hayes Hardware
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
1908 Lewisville Enterprise
1908 Lewisville Enterprise cropped
1908 Main Street parade (SMU)
1908 Otho Sparks chain gang
1908 parade floats (SMU)
1908c – Velda Hamilton of Lewisville Enterprise
1908c Linnie and Lorice Baxter
1909 Lewisville 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.
1909 Lewisville Depot corrected
1909 Main Street
1909 Washday with Sudie Robertson
Women and children in the Waketon Community would gather to share their washing duties. 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.
1909 houses along the tracks
1909c Baxter House
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
A black and white photo, measuring approx. 6 inches by 4.25 inches, with a white border on three sides. Image shows 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.”
There are two photos glued to the back of this, including one of shopkeeper Joe Cobb [ITEM #2022.047.09].
1911 Independence Day Parade 01 – cropped
1911 Independence Day Parade 02
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
1911 Moore Drug
1912 CSA Veteran Jimmy Williams
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
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
1914 burned Main Street furniture store
1914 burned Main Street furniture store (cropped)
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.
1916c Good Roads Bond Committee
1916c Good Roads Bond Committee – crop
1916c Old Town Lewisville
1917 Check – First National Bank
1918 Marjorie Singletary
1918 Samuel Lusk death announcement
1920 – 1929
1920 Moving from Lewisville to Grapevine
B. Moir and J. Wiley stand in front of a car surrounded by packed belongings.
Text below the image says “Moving Lewisville to Grapevine” and “Nov 17 1920.” he building behind the men has not been positively identified.
1920c Bethel School teacher Allie Nowlin
This is believed to be Nannie Alien Nowlin (1887-1971), daughter of Henry R. Nowlin and Sarah Rebecca Nowlin. Her name is spelled three ways in different sources – Alien, Ailen, and Aileen – but most records use the first spelling. Alien is referenced in a 1938 newspaper article as a teacher at Bethel School, and in a 1954 newspaper article as a teacher at Lewisville schools. Her obituary says she taught at Bethel School for 50 years and that former students served as pallbearers.
She is buried at Old Hall Cemetery in Lewisville. She never married. A 1919 artifact from Bethel School received from the same donor lists Ailen Nowlin as the primary teacher that school year. Photo courtesy of Kara Young.
1920c Cobb’s Dry Goods
1920c Cobb’s Dry Goods with label
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 Bob Greer freight truck
1920s Denton County Boosters
1920s Denton County Boosters (original)
1920s First National Bank – Oscar E Carlisle 1
1920s First National Bank – Oscar E Carlisle 1 (original)
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 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 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 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)
1936c Russell sisters at Waketon Community
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
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
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
1939c Curtis Family home
1940 – 1949
1940 LHS Kid’s Day
1940 LHS junior-senior banquet
The 1940 LHS Junior-Senior Banquet. Photo courtesy of John Garrison.
1940 LHS seniors
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
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
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
1942 delayed birth certificate for Henry Baxter
1944 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 1
1944 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 2
1945 Lewisville Enterprise special
1945 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 2
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
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
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
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
1948 Lakeview Egg Farm
1948 Lewisvile School 01
1948 Lewisvile School 02
1948 Lewisvile School 03
1948 Lewisvile School 04
1948 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 5
1949 Aerial – Old Town Lewisville
1949 LISD School Board
1949 Lewisville High School
1949 Nobles Cleaners
1950 – 1959
1950 LHS football player Royce Heath
1950 Lewisville Grammar School
1950 Lewisville Grammar School, Grade 7
1950c Lewisville Dam construction
1950c Willetta Sherrill
1950c aerial
1950s Elmer Williams Store
1950s Lewisville FHA with Chester Boyd
1951 Eighth Grade Graduation, Jane Salmon
1951 LHS football team
1951 LHS quarterback Bill Young in stance
1951 LHS quarterback Bill Young throwing
1951c Gober Paint and Body Shop
1952 Church of Christ
1952 First Baptist Church
1952 First Presbyterian Church
1952 LHS Ag Teacher Chester Boyd
1952 LHS Homecoming float
1952 LHS Homecoming game, majorettes 01
1952 LHS Homecoming game, majorettes 02
1960 – 1969
1960 Cindy Denison with bicycle at LV Leader sign
1960 First National Bank building 01
1960 First National Bank building 02
1960 Lewisville Water Tower
1960 Row of women seated under hairdryers
1960c First Presbyterian Church Good Housekeepers
1960c Water Tower on 35E – as built
1960s Main Street core
1960s Salmon’s Food Store interior
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 – Slide10
1977 aerial – Slide11
1977 aerial – Slide12
1977 aerial – Slide13
1977 aerial – Slide14
1977 aerial – Slide2
1977 aerial – Slide3
1977 aerial – Slide4
1977 aerial – Slide5
1977 aerial – Slide6
1977 aerial – Slide7
1977 aerial – Slide8
1977 aerial – Slide9
1978 newspaper clipping
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
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
Mayor Gene Carey at the annual Independence Day celebration in 2001. Carey was the longest-serving mayor in Lewisville history, with more than nine years in the office starting in 2000.
2010 – Present
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
