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We would like to provide the residents of  Wills Point  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Wills Point Home page. The Wills Point Home page provides as much information as possible on Wills Point. Knowing Wills Point’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Wills Point’s Home page, you will also find Wills Point’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Wills Point has a population of 3614. 43.5% of Wills Point’s inhabitants are Male, and 56.5 are female. 41.1% of Wills Point is married and 53.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $101,134, and the average rent is $772. Household median income in Wills Point is $34,511, and the individual median income is $22,486. Wills Point’s Ethnic is the following: White(75.9%), Black(16.5%), Hispanic(16.4%), Multiple(7.2%), Other(0.4%).


Founded in 1873, Wills Point gets its name from an early American settler, William Wills, who had arrived in the area circa 1848. Wills eventually purchased a cabin from Adam Sullivan in 1852. The name 'point' may also derive from the shape of the original timberline near the cabin, though there have been unsubstantiated arguments that the name relates to the area's elevation.


The layout of the city was the work of engineer General Grenville M. Dodge of the California Construction Company. The downtown streets were laid with red bricks upon packed sand in the 1920s by locals and remain in use. Downtown Wills Point has many of its original buildings that are over one hundred years old including the Wills cabin, a drug store, a dry good store, and a law office.


Governor George W. Bush officially named Wills Point the Bluebird Capital of Texas in 1995. The Majestic Movie theater was opened in 1926 by Karl C. LyBrand and was still family operated by Karl C. Lybrand III until its closure on October 4, 2010. It had been the oldest continuously operated movie theater in Texas run by a single family. The Bruce & Human Drug Company, located on the corner of 4th Street and James, was built in 1879 and is the oldest family owned drug store in Texas. Wills Point is also the final resting place for Trailblazer, the first commercially operated monorail system in the United States. Gospel For Asia, a Christian ministry which has faced numerous lawsuits alleging misuse of donations, is located seven miles outside the city.


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