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FM 423 was first designated on July 2, 1945. Its original routing was from Lewisville to the former Lake Dallas dam along what was then SH 24.Upon completion of the Lewisville Dam and the creation of Lewisville Lake in 1955, the route's alignment was shifted to the east, connecting FM 720 (itself an older alignment of SH 24) to SH 121. [6]
In 1988, Homart, a then-subsidiary of Sears, planned to develop a million-square foot mall in Frisco, which consisted of roughly 6,000 people at the time. [2]When Plano city officials learned of Homart's plan, they offered $10 million if the company decided to move its planned mall across Texas Route 121 into their city limits.
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).
"Old 4524," the last of the Frisco railroad's steam locomotives, on the track before its final journey to Grant Beach Park. Published in the Springfield Leader & Press on Nov. 2, 1953.
Frisco Square, a mixed-use development, became the new downtown along with the city hall. Frisco Square has about 250 rental residential units, seven restaurants, about 40,000 square feet (3,700 m 2) of commercial office space, and a few personal-service locations. The major development in the project is the new city hall, main library, and ...
The school is named for Lebanon, a community which existed at the site about half a century before Frisco and was located near the Preston Trail. [3] An initial decision to name the school Lebanon High School caused controversy among parents and students alike, who felt that the school's name would be too reminiscent of the Middle Eastern country of the same name; the community was allegedly ...
Loop 121 was first designated as Spur 121 on May 29, 1941 as a highway in Brewster County, connecting SH 227 (now FM 170) to the town of Terlingua. This highway was cancelled on February 20, 1946, being removed from the state highway system. Loop 121 was designated on October 31, 1958, running from I-35 eastward to FM 436.
St. Louis–San Francisco 1352 is an Alco built 2-8-2 Steam locomotive.Built in 1912 as a 2-8-0 Consolidation-type by the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York, for the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway (SLSF or "Frisco"), the engine was later rebuilt into a 2-8-2 Mikado-type to keep up with the traffic demands from World War II.