Lancaster Then. Lancaster Now
Lancaster Then
In 1841, the Republic of Texas Congress approved President Mirabeau Lamar to go into an agreement with 20 partners to advance settlement in North Texas and paid the organization with free land in return for selecting new pioneers.
In 1844 Roderick Rawlins was the first group of settlers in Lancaster from Greene County, IL. The rest of the settlers arrived by January 1845. One community was called Hardscrabble and the other Pleasant Run. The Pleasant Run community was established in 1846 by Roderick’s daughter Polly Rawlins and her husband Madison Moultrie Miller. A post office was established with biweekly mail delivery and Miller was the postmaster.
By 1850, he had spread out a town and sold plots, yet never documented a plat/quadrant of the local area with Dallas County. At its pinnacle, Pleasant Run flaunted a phase stop, school, and steam-controlled grist mill and the Miller's store. Madison Miller died in 1860. Pleasant Run downturned. Not long after the Rawlins' pioneers deserted the Hardscrabble settlement and Lancaster turned into the prevailing community once more.
The founder of Lancaster was Abram Bledsoe. He named the area Lancaster, after his hometown in Kentucky. Bledsoe surveyed and staked off the original town of Lancaster in 1852, thus it became established in 1852. Lancaster’s official plat/quadrant was only filed with the Dallas County in 1857.
Lancaster Now
Lancaster is 16 miles or 25 minutes from Dallas, TX. It’s part of Dallas County and has 3 primary highways Interstate 35 (running north to south), Interstate 20 (running east to west) and highway 342 (running north to south). The DFW international airport is located 35 miles or 40 minutes from Lancaster.
It’s residence to 42,000 people and due to its vibrant economy attracted a lot of business. 5,000 new jobs will be created by the end of 2023 in addition to the 18,900 jobs currently offered by Lancaster businesses. Businesses range from agriculture, manufacturing and fulfillment centers like Amazon and Kroger. New jobs coming in from Ocean Spray, Walmart, Kroger Fulfillment Center, ThredUp, Discount Tire Warehouse, DSV, McKinley Packaging, Niagara will boost Lancaster’s economy even more.
2022-2023 offers 740 homes in the pipeline for construction. Lancaster is the 7th easiest city to sell a home in Texas (Dallas Business Journal). The median home values at $296,000. Homes were on the market for an average of 18 days. According to the 2019 educational statistics the school system Lancaster ISD had an accountability rating of B and educated 7200 students. The average teacher experience is 11.9 years, which was higher than the state average of 11.2 years. It had a 99.1% four-year graduation rate which was higher than the state average of 90.3%.
Lancaster is a flourishing and diverse community where historical assets and natural beauty is valued. Lancaster embraces public security and compassionate enforcement of its neighborhoods to sustain vibrant residential and business communities.
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