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The History of Frisco, Texas

The city of Frisco is located 30 miles north of Downtown Dallas, Texas. Now one of the fastest growing cities in the United States, Frisco had its humble beginnings as a piece of land owned by a subsidiary of the Frisco Railroad—the Blackland Town Site Company. In 1902, Blackland divided the property into lots with the intent of auctioning them off to interested settlers. The auction attracted not only people from neighboring communities with no railroad access, but also people from hundreds of miles away, as far as Chicago and Kansas City. Some residents of the nearby town of Lebanon even went to great lengths to move their homes by rolling them on logs to where downtown Frisco now stands; the T.J. Campbell home is one that still exists today as a historical monument and steakhouse on Main and Fifth Street. The new settlement was first named “Emerson,” but the post office feared the name would be confused with that of the town of Emberson that stood 100 miles northeast, and so residents chose the name Frisco in honor of the railroad that helped to found their town. Frisco was incorporated as a city in 1908, and by 1920 it had a population of only 733.