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Flower Mound is named for a small, smooth cretaceous mound on the southern line of the John R. Wizwell survey, which rises to a height of some 650 feet - about fifty feet above the surrounding prairie. The name was given in the 1840's (originally named "Long Prairie") because of one particularly abundant growth year, wildflowers frequently being more abundant in one year than another. There is a legend that nothing may be built on the mound. One aspect of this legend involves Flower Mound Presbyterian Church. Materials were said to have been stacked on the mound in preparation for the erection of a church building when a tornado swept across the mound, flinging the materials before it. The elders of the church immediately changed site plans. (This does not correspond to known history of the Flower Mound church site.) A similar legend involves a house about to be erected on the mound which was also blown away. The builder quickly moved his homesite to the north side of the mound and there (according to the legend) it stands today. (1973) The mound is a noticeable landmark and had enjoyed a kind of community status since settlement began.
South of Denton and northwest of Dallas in south central Denton County, Flower Mound is a residential suburban community of 20,000 acres on the shore of Grapevine Lake. It was established soon after Sam Houston settled a tribal dispute in 1844 and Indian raids in the area ceased. Permanent settlers moved in, attracted by the quality of the soil, which was suitable for raising cotton, corn, and wheat. The Peters colony named the town for a fifty-foot-high mound covered with Indian paintbrush; the mound was once used by Indians as a holy place. Unlike many pioneer settlements in Denton County that were bypassed by the railroads in the late nineteenth century or unable to survive the Great Depression, Flower Mound maintained a steady population throughout the first four decades of the twentieth century and became a substantial farming and cattle-raising community.
In the 1940's the territory north of Lake Grapevine, was being set up as a prime target for invasion by Mafia bosses from New York and Chicago. One of the more famous personalities who led the assault was Benny Binion. Binion's plan called for conspiring with some of the local Dallas gamblers and petty hoods to organize and move into the area with drugs, prostitution, gambling, and union filtrations to make Dallas a major southern stronghold. Should Binion prove successful, he would become a member in good standing with the Chicago bosses and run the Dallas mafia connection. Binion had only one small problem. A wealthy and successful gambler named Herb Nobel was well known in the Dallas area. Noble was strongly opposed to the infilration of organized crime taking over the city, and he took a stand against Binion. Nobel retreated to his ranch and recruited his own group of loyalists to his cause. The headquarters for his operation were the stone cabins on a hill near Grapevine Lake, in what is now the Point Noble subdivision. Dallas found itself in a full scale turf war, complete with mafia hitmen, car bombs, wholesale murder, blazing gunfights and car chases in the streets, on a regular basis as the two men squared off to determine who would control the city. The Northern Bosses could not understand, nor could Binion explain to them, how one man could be so effective in thwarting the efforts on a huge syndicate. All Binion had to do was eliminate Noble. As a result of the street war, Noble was shot twelve different times, but each time, he survived. Some of the best assasins the Mob had at their disposal could not seem to silence Noble. Eventually Herb was given the nicename "Cat" Noble because he seemed to defy the odds with his nine lives. The mob once tried using a car bomb to kill Noble, but instead killed his wife. According to this webmaster's other sources, Noble was finally killed by a bomb planted in his mailbox, which used to stand on the western side of the Witchita Trail bridge. But if true, what happened to Binion?
In the mid-1950s the town began to grow. The increase in the number of residents was a result of the construction by the United States Corps of Engineers of Grapevine Lake, which was completed on July 2, 1953. The lake stimulated the economy of the community and attracted workers who preferred to live outside the central Dallas area. Flower Mound was incorporated on February 27, 1961. The town had an estimated population of 275 in 1966 and 664 in 1968.
Flower Mound was chosen one of thirteen communities to be affected by the 1968 New Communities Act (Housing and Urban Development Title IV) as the site of a new planned community that would offer model social and environmental conditions to residents. The act, amended in 1970, provided $18 million of a total $294 million in federal loan guarantees for new towns, for developers Raymond D. Nasher, former UN General Assembly delegate, and Edward S. Marcus, chairman of Neiman-Marcus, to set up four village centers or neighborhoods, each with schools, parks, and shopping and recreational facilities, on 6,156 acres on the north shore of Grapevine Lake. Flower Mound New Town, designed as a satellite town to limit the growing urban sprawl of Dallas and Fort Worth, was expected to house some 60,000 to 70,000 persons comprising a mixture of racial and income groups, and to provide such services as cable television, rapid transit to the new Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, and environmental protection for the area. Residents of the original town of Flower Mound, however, fought tax increases proposed to accommodate the new development. The dispute resulted in replacement of the city's five aldermen with two city commissioners.
The population of Flower Mound was 1,685 in 1970. Construction began on the new town in 1972, but federal red tape, the 1973-75 economic recession, slow land sales, changing federal policy, and the relative isolation of the site brought failure of the project, despite an additional HUD grant of $170,000. In the spring of 1974 Nasher sold out to Marcus, who in turn sold his half interest to Tinnie Mercantile Company, owned by Robert Anderson, chairman of Atlantic-Richfield. By September 1976, with other new towns failing and Flower Mound experiencing financial difficulty, HUD foreclosed on its model Texas experiment in public-private cooperation. The development, which by then numbered 300 persons and 100 homes, subsequently attracted builders and was renamed Timber Creek Community. In 1980 the town's population was 4,402. In 1990 Flower Mound reported a population of 15,527
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