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History in
a Pecan Shell
Handbook of Texas
Online:
Lake Dallas is a resort community on the shores of Lewisville Lake
ten miles south of Denton in southeastern Denton County. The site
was occupied in 1852. The area offered water, timber, and farmland,
and the community that developed in the vicinity was originally called
French Settlement, after the family named French who settled there.
In 1881 the community was more formally constituted and adopted the
name Garza, the origin of which is in dispute. Garza may have been
the chief of a crew that laid track for the Dallas and Wichita Railway,
which built through the area in 1881. In 1926 or 1929, after the impoundment
of Lake Dallas, the residents of the town renamed their community
Lake Dallas. The community's population increased from 489 in 1940
to 1,431 in 1970, reflecting the additional use of the Garza-Little
Elm Reservoir (now Lewisville Lake), the waters of which covered the
original lake. In 1965, after a nine-year legal struggle among its
residents, Lake Dallas was finally incorporated. By 1980 its population
had grown to 3,177, largely because of the economic growth in the
area between Dallas and Denton. In 1991 Lake Dallas reported 113 businesses
and a population of 3,718. The population grew to 6,166 by 2000.
David Minor, “Lake Dallas, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed
August 07, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/lake-dallas-tx.
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Lake Dallas Municipal
Cmplex / Police Department
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courtesy Clint
Skinner, July 2022 |
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