Lebanon, Texas

When the Dallas area was being settled by American pioneers in the 1840s, many of the settlers traveled by wagon trains along the old Shawnee Trail, which was also used for cattle drives north from Austin.

The town was granted a U.S. post office in 1860 and by the 1880s it had a church, a school, a cotton gin, a flour mill, a blacksmith, and many other merchants.

In addition, the railroad established a new town along its route in order to provide water for the trains, which sealed Lebanon's fate.

[4] By this time the original town site had been annexed into the growing city of Frisco and Preston Road (now a state highway) was being widened to six lanes.

[6] The old town of Lebanon was located near what is now the intersection of Preston Road and John Hickman Parkway in the city of Frisco, Texas.

Circa 1920, the church was moved to Cadiz, a nearby town in Bee County, and by 1940 Lebanon's Methodist congregation had been disbanded.