Modern Southlake: How we got here
Southlake Town Hall, 1400 Main Street
Exhibit hours: Mon.-Thurs., 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-6 pm., closed Sun.
Southlake’s story begins in summer 1956. Until then, residents are content to live free of city taxes and controls. Things changed in 1956 when Hurst, the new home of Bell Helicopter, had its sights on annexing unincorporated land north to Lake Grapevine. A handful of residents made hast to gather the required signatures to petition for a town.
The Southlake Historical Society’s summer 2025 exhibit, “Modern Southlake: How we got here,” shares photographs and stories decade-by-decade about the important events that took Southlake from a small rural community into the city of today.