In the early s the lake had considerable residential development along its shores. The following, adapted from the Chicago Manual of Style , 15th edition, is the preferred citation for this entry. Wanda Stowe and her husband, Bill, drove down to the site in their first automobile and had their picture taken.
Descendants of Bob and Meady Jones were among those displaced by construction of the lake. They all moved, except for Eugie Jones Thomas, their daughter. My home was more to me than money. The Army Corps of Engineers began work on the lake in and completed it in Locals were told it would take 10 years for the lake to fill.
But as locals predicted, it filled up during the first big rain. A dragline and other equipment still rests under the lake. Within a year, the first settlers started arriving, rolling in on covered wagons, on the Grape Vine Prairie.
The wild mustang grapes that were abundant there gave the area its name, Grapevine. Grapevine is the oldest settlement in Tarrant County, originating under the Lone Star flag of the Republic of Texas in , a year before Texas was annexed by the United States of America.
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