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Lewisville (/ ˈ l uː ɪ s v ɪ l / LOO-iss-vil) is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Denton County with portions extending into Dallas County.As one of the Mid-Cities within the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the 2020 census reported a population of 111,822.
Lewisville, Texas Lewisville Lake , formerly known as Garza-Little Elm Reservoir , is a reservoir in North Texas ( USA ) on the Elm Fork of the Trinity River in Denton County near Lewisville . Originally engineered in 1927 as Lake Dallas, the reservoir was expanded in the 1940s and 1950s and renamed Lewisville Lake.
State Highway 121 (SH 121) is a state highway angling from southwest to northeast through north central Texas. It runs from Cleburne, Texas at US 67 to SH 78 in Bonham, Texas, just north of a junction with US 82. Between Fort Worth and Euless, SH 121 is known as Airport Freeway (east of Euless, this name applies to SH 183).
US 195 has a 0.54-mile-long (870 m) spur route near its southern terminus on the Washington–Idaho state line that travels east from US 195 to serve US 95 northbound atop Lewiston Hill. [ 1 ] [ 58 ] The unsigned highway, also known as the Genesee Spur , was established in 1979 on the former alignment of US 95 as it passed briefly through ...
[160]: 162 In 1893 the Annie Faxon suffered a boiler explosion and sank on the Snake below Lewiston, killing five people. [161] [17]: 160 Starting in the 1880s, the Army Corps began dredging the Snake River below Lewiston to maintain a 5-foot (1.5 m) deep navigation channel. [120]: 67 River traffic declined rapidly once railroads arrived.
The metro is anchored by the cities of Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, Washington—named after Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, [A] respectively. As of the 2010 census , the MSA had a population of 60,888 (though a July 1, 2011 estimate placed the population at 61,476), [ 1 ] making it the 4th smallest metropolitan area in the United States.
The Lower Lisbon Street Historic District encompasses part of the earliest commercial center of Lewiston, Maine.Located on the west side of Lisbon Street, the city's main commercial area, between Cedar and Chestnut Streets are a collection of commercial buildings representing a cross section of architectural styles, built between 1850 and 1950.
The Lewiston Water Power Company was founded about 1850 by a group of investors from Boston, Massachusetts, seeking to capitalize on the water power of the falls on the Androscoggin River between Lewiston and Auburn. The company built a series of power canals, and built cotton spinning and weaving mills along their banks.