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Argyle, TX - History
We would like to provide the residents of Argyle a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Argyle Home page. The Argyle Home page provides as much information as possible on Argyle. Knowing Argyle’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Argyle’s Home page, you will also find Argyle’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Argyle has a population of 4278. 49% of Argyle’s inhabitants are Male, and 51 are female. 76.8% of Argyle is married and 89.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $522,460. Household median income in Argyle is $190,500, and the individual median income is $80,929. Argyle’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.3%), Hispanic(2.6%), Multiple(2.6%), Black(1%).
The first European settlement, consisting of a few families, occurred in the Argyle area in the 1850s. The place was then known as Pilot Knob or Waintown. The settlement gradually acquired a few amenities in the late 1800s: a school in 1875, a Baptist church in 1876, and a post office in 1878. The community was formally founded and renamed Argyle in 1881, after the Texas and Pacific railroad built a track through the area.
Some believe a railroad surveyor named the town after a garden in France. However, others believe the town to be named after the region of Argyll in Scotland. Also around this time was when Sam Bass, an infamous outlaw who stole $60,000 in gold coins from the Union Pacific Railroad, was rumored to have stashed the gold in a cave.
Sam Bass died when he was 27, and it was rumored he never lived to retrieve the gold. Growth was very slow during the nineteenth century, and by 1890 Argyle only had a population of 148. The town did boast several agriculture-related industries, such as grist mills, general stores, and a cotton gin.
In 1885 Argyle built a two-story brick school, and population grew until it reached 238 in 1930. A bank was also established in 1906, a little red brick building with a drugstore in the front. The bank wasn't around long before it was robbed in 1912. The robbers made away with $1700 and were never caught.
Electricity and telephone service became available in the mid-1930s. The Great Depression took its toll on the Argyle area, and the population declined to only ninety in 1950. Argyle incorporated as a separate city on September 19, 1960, with M.H. Wilson as the first mayor. Gradually the town grew in population as more people from the Dallas–Fort Worth area discovered its rural charm.
By the 1970s a number of retail establishments were located in Argyle, and the population reached 1,575 in 1990, and doubled from that figure to 3,282 at the 2010 census. The high rate of growth is expected to continue as part of the general development of northern areas in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
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