Frisco, Texas

Everything Frisco is known for

11 songs mention this city 3 artists from here

Frisco, Texas, a city known as "Sports City USA," also has a growing musical presence. While not widely recognized as a music hub, it is home to artists like pop singer Maelyn Jarmon, who won season 16 of NBC's The Voice, and country artist Grace Tyler. The city is also mentioned in songs such as "Frisco Song" by Glen Sherley and "Frisco" by Little Dragon.

Frisco's musical identity is further shaped by artists such as indie musician Ella Red, who hails from the city. These artists contribute to the diverse sounds connected to Frisco, a city that continues to grow its cultural offerings.

Music in Frisco

Songs About Frisco

Frisco Depot
Darrell Scott
98%
"Frisco Depot"
Somewhere in Texas
Tristan Roberson
82%
Frisco Song
Back Creek
80%
"Song about Frisco"
Frisco
Little Dragon
80%
"Song about Frisco"
Here in Frisco
Dale Watson
80%
"Here in Frisco"
frisco
johnny lee
79%
Earle Byrd From Mexia
Muscadine Bloodline
55%
"Frisco's the closest town"
crazy train
ozzy osbourne
10%
I’ve Been Everywhere...In Texas
Brian Burns
7%
"Frisco"
Frisco Song
Glen Sherley
6%
"TITLE"
Those Feat’ll Steer Ya Wrong Sometimes
Little Feat
3%
"Now we're going to London... Frisco, Waco... Houston, Austin, all around Dallas"

Artists From Frisco

E
Ella Red
indie Pop: 56
M
Maelyn Jarmon
pop Pop: 28
G
Grace Tyler
country Pop: 22

Rivers & Roads in Song near Frisco

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Frisco.

Interstate 35 42 songs Trinity River 10 songs Interstate 45 7 songs Interstate 20 13 songs Texas State Highway 199 8 songs Red River 84 songs

History of Frisco

Earthquake, Fire, and Fog RoadyGoat

You're in Frisco, Texas, so here's the San Francisco and Frisco Line tangent behind the name: the April eighteen, nineteen oh six earthquake ruptured the San Andreas Fault and devastated San Francisco, but broken water mains and days of urban fire produced much of the destruction. The city's famous summer fog comes when moist marine air cools over cold coastal water and is drawn through the Golden Gate toward warmer inland air. Fog can vary block by block as hills channel it. One phenomenon rises from moving crust, the other from ocean and atmosphere, yet both show how San Francisco's identity is inseparable from physical geography.

The Railroad, Not California, Named Frisco RoadyGoat

You're in Frisco, Texas, so here's the San Francisco and Frisco Line tangent behind the name: the town began around a stop on the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway. Railroad workers shortened that corporate name to the Frisco Line, and residents chose Frisco City in nineteen oh two after an earlier postal name failed; City soon disappeared. The local name therefore points first to a railroad whose title pointed to San Francisco, not to settlers copying California directly. Steam locomotives needed regular water stops, and that operating requirement helped determine where the North Texas community formed.

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Gold Rush and Forty-Niners RoadyGoat

You're in Frisco, Texas, so here's the San Francisco and Frisco Line tangent behind the name: the eighteen forty eight discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill triggered mass migration to California in eighteen forty nine and transformed San Francisco from a small port into a chaotic supply city. The San Francisco Forty-Niners football name preserves those fortune seekers. Gold enriched some miners, but merchants, shipping firms, landlords, and suppliers often profited more reliably. The rush also brought dispossession, violence, environmental damage, and discriminatory laws affecting Native peoples, Californios, Chinese migrants, and others. Boomtown mythology shines brightest when its costs are left outside the frame.

Bollin, A. D. [Zuzu]

1923

Blues singer A. D. (Zuzu) Bollin was born in Frisco, Texas, on September 5, 1923. His social security records say he was born in 1923, though most music references give his birth year as 1922. As a boy, Bollin was influenced by two uncles, amateur guitarists, who played the records of Blind Lemon Jefferson and other early blues musicians. He moved to Dallas with his mother by the 1930s, served in the navy from 1944 to 1946, and started performing professionally in the postwar years. In 1947 he was living in Denton, where he played in the band of Texan E. X. Brooks. He also performed in bands with such illustrious Texas reedmen as Buster Smith , Booker Ervin , and Adolphus Sneed. During this time he took the nickname "Zuzu" from his favorite brand of ginger cookies called Zu Zu ginger snaps. In 1949 Bollin formed a group with renowned saxists Leroy Cooper and David "Fathead" Newman. Both of these musicians played on his 1951 recording of one of the true classics of Texas blues, "Why Don't You Eat Where You Slept Last Night?" (flip side "Matchbox Blues"), for the short-lived label Torch. Bollin's voice was deep and strong, and his guitar break was in the jazzy T-Bone Walker . The 1951 piece garnered a bit of regional fame for Bollin, so he figured he was entitled to raise his performance price a bit. Reputedly this irked Dallas nightclub boss Jack Ruby , who used his influence to quash the record. In the 1950s and early 1960s Bollin traveled around Texas and the United States and toured with various bands, including the band of Joe Morris, which backed such performers as Jackie Wilson. About 1964 he left the music business and went into dry cleaning. He fell into obscurity that lasted until 1987, when blues enthusiast Chuck Nevitt found him in a poverty-row roominghouse near downtown Dallas. Nevitt took Bollin down the comeback trail, acting as his manager and producing the acclaimed LP Zuzu Bollin: Texas Bluesman , sponsored by the Dallas Blues Society and released on the Antone 's label in 1989. Bollin was suddenly ubiquitous in Dallas nightspots. The friendly, personable bluesman sometimes performed with the Juke Jumpers, but his most empathic accompanist was Brian "Hash Brown" Calway. In 1989 Bollin played at the Chicago Blues Festival and toured Europe, playing at Holland's prestigious Blues Estafette. His impressive comeback was curtailed by cancer, from which he died on October 19, 1990.

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The Shawnee Trail

1838

In 1838 the Republic of Texas Congress appropriated money for construction of a north-south road opening the northern Texas area to trade. The project leader, Colonel William G. Cooke, followed an existing Indian trail which reached from the Red River to Austin. A supply fort established on the river near the trading post of Holland Coffee was named for Captain William G. Preston, a veteran of the Texas Revolution, who was in charge of troops stationed there in 1840. The part of the road running south from the Red River to the Trinity River crossing was known as the Preston Road. At the Trinity River crossing in 1841 John Neely Bryan began the settlement of Dallas. By the 1850s the road was known as the Shawnee Trail and was used by immigrants coming to Texas. It also served as a cattle trail, leading to northern markets. The number of cattle drives decreased as new trails were opened to serve the growing Texas cattle industry. Further decline occurred when rail lines were completed to the area in the 1870s. Lebanon served as an assembly point for cattle drives on the Shawnee Trail. Bypassed by the Frisco Railroad in 1902, the town declined. The post office, opened in 1860, closed in 1905. (1980)

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Site of Rock Hill

1854

Probably named for the white rock escarpment on which it was built, Rock Hill was established by December 1854 when John Moore became its first postmaster. By the early 20th century the town boasted two schools, four churches, three doctors, a grist mill, general store, cotton gin, blacksmith, drugstore, dry goods and grocery and a population of 115. In 1902 the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad bypassed the town, and within months most of the businesses, townspeople and churches had relocated to Prosper. The little community survived for several more years. In the mid-1930s an African American Baptist church was the only one remaining. The Anglo school closed in 1948; the black school closed in the 1960s. A general store, the last remnant of Rock Hill, was razed in 1973.

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T. J. Campbell House

1869

Pioneer home of T.J. Campbell. Built in Lebanon, Tx., on Preston Road, 1869. Moved to Frisco to be on railroad and mail line, 1902. Constructed of lumber hauled by wagon train from Jefferson. Has cypress siding and windows. Gingerbread added after move. The Campbell family, pioneer merchants, served this area of Collin County from 1869 to 1910. House was a landmark on Preston Road during era of Texas cattle drives, in late 19th century. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1972 Incising on base: Restored by W.O. McCallum family 1971-72

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Frisco, TX

1902

Frisco is on State Highway 289 and Farm Road 720 about thirty miles north of Dallas in western Collin County. A portion of the community also lies in eastern Denton County. Frisco was originally named Emerson, after Francis Emerson, who owned the farm where the townsite was located. Emerson, a McKinney banker, had promised to place a national bank in the town if it was named after him, but the bank was never established. Because the name Emerson resembled that of Emberson in Lamar County the town was renamed Frisco City, in honor of the St. Louis, San Francisco and Texas Railway Company, popularly known as the Frisco system, when the post office was established in 1902. The town name was later shortened. Frisco was incorporated during the first decade of the twentieth century and augmented by an influx of residents of nearby Erudia and Lebanon, who wanted to take advantage of the railroad line. Originally a retail and shipping point for farmers, Frisco had a number of cotton gins and grain elevators and was the home of a Farmers Co-operative Gin Association. By 1914 the population was estimated at 1,000. The Reinbert Electric Company began service to the community in 1913. In 1924 Texas Power and Light bought out Reinbert and in 1955 constructed a 110,000-kilowatt generating plant just outside of town on State Highway 289. In 1921 the Lone Star Gas Company organized the Farmers Gas Company in order to supply gas to smaller towns, including Frisco. The population grew steadily, from 618 in 1930 to 1,184 in 1960. In the 1970s, however, it increased rapidly, from 1,845 in 1970 to 3,499 in 1980. This increase was a result of the growth of Dallas and Plano, advancements in production of dairy products , small grains, and cotton, and new aeronautical production plants in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Although still a retail point for farmers, Frisco gradually became a suburb of Dallas. Frisco is home to the Frisco Roughriders, an AA minor league affiliate of the Texas Rangers MLB team, and FC Dallas, a major league soccer team. In 1990 the population was 6,141, and the community had spread into Denton County. In 2000 the population had increased to 33,714.

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Johnson, Samuel Robert, Jr.

1966

Samuel Robert Johnson, Jr. United States Air Force pilot, veteran of the Korean War, prisoner of war during the Vietnam War, and U. S. representative for Texas's Third Congressional District, was born on October 11, 1930, to Samuel Robert Johnson, Sr., and Mima (Nabors) Johnson in San Antonio, Texas. Johnson grew up in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in 1947. After high school he attended Southern Methodist University (SMU), where he joined the Alpha Kappa Psi business fraternity and the Delta Chi social fraternity. Johnson married Shirley Lee Melton on September 1, 1950. The following year, in 1951, he graduated with a bachelor's degree in business administration. While at SMU, Johnson enlisted in the military. He served in the United States Air Force for twenty-nine years and flew sixty-two combat missions as a fighter pilot in the Korean War and twenty-five in the Vietnam War. While in training Johnson met future astronaut Buzz Aldrin. The two flew together in Korea and were lifelong friends. Aldrin later wore a silver POW bracelet engraved with Johnson's name during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969. Following his time in Korea, Johnson served as a flight instructor, training officer, and as director of the Air Force Fighter Weapons School in Nevada. He also flew with the Thunderbirds Aerial Demonstration Team in 1957 and 1958. While flying a bombing mission over North Vietnam in 1966, Johnson was wounded when the North Vietnamese army struck down his plane and captured him. He was taken to the Hỏa Lò Prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton." Johnson was one of eleven U. S. military prisoners, known as the Alcatraz Gang, that were separated from other prisoners because they were seen as leaders of prisoner resistance. They were held about a mile away at a special facility dubbed "Alcatraz" by the Americans. He was held as a prisoner of war for nearly seven years, forty-two months of it in solitary confinement at Alcatraz. Johnson was repeatedly starved and tortured, and the injuries that he sustained during his capture, including a broken right arm and back, were never properly treated. By the time of his release, on February 12, 1973, during Operation Homecoming, he weighed only 120 pounds, his right hand was disabled, and he walked with a permanent limp. Johnson remained in the U. S. Air Force, and in 1974 he earned a masters degree in industrial administration from George Washington University through an off-campus program for military officers. He subsequently served as the deputy commander for operations for the 4th Tactical Fighter Wing at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in North Carolina, as wing commander of the 31st Tactical Fighter Wing at Homestead Air Force Base in Florida, and as air division commander at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, before retiring as a colonel in 1979. Johnson co-authored an air-tactics manual that was still in use at the time of his death. He recounted the details of his POW experience in his autobiography, Captive Warriors: A Vietnam POW's Story (1992). Following his retirement from the military, Johnson returned to Plano, Texas, and established a home construction business. In 1984 he ran for a seat in the Texas legislature. He narrowly defeated his Republican primary opponent, Brian McCall, by 267 votes in a runoff election. Johnson represented House District 60 from 1985 to 1991. He gave up his seat to run in the special election to fill the unexpired term of U. S. Representative Steve Bartlett, who resigned to run for Dallas mayor. One of twelve candidates, Johnson defeated Tom Pauken in a runoff to win his seat as representative for Texas's Third Congressional District. Taking his seat in Congress on May 8, 1991, Johnson soon earned a reputation as a one of the most conservative members of the U. S. House. A fiscal conservative who supported a strict construction of the U. S. Constitution, he championed lower taxes and small government. Johnson opp

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Things to Do in Frisco

quirky 13.7 mi away
Southfork Ranch

The Ewing family TV mansion from the Dallas soap opera sits on two hundred acres in Parker Texas and is open for tours every day. JRs bedroom is there. The…
quirky 17.1 mi away
Goatman's Bridge

A 1884 iron bridge outside Denton haunted by the ghost of a murdered goat farmer.
historical 17.5 mi away
Southfork Ranch

The filming location of TV's Dallas. JR Ewing lived here.
spooky 23.9 mi away
Lady of White Rock Lake

Since the 1930s drivers along White Rock Lake report picking up a soaking-wet woman in a white dress. She asks for a ride home then vanishes leaving the seat…
day trip
Day Trip to Frisco 🕹 (FULL EPISODE) S10 E8

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Sports in Frisco

⭐ HOMETOWN LEGENDS Class 5A · Football

Frisco Raccoons — Frisco — a college & pro athletic pipeline

4 alumni who reached major-college or pro sports

Frisco High School, a familiar name in Texas 5A athletics, has seen several of its former students go on to compete at high levels. The school's athletic programs have prepared many for collegiate and professional careers. These athletes represent the hard work and dedication fostered within the Frisco community.

Among the notable alumni are Ryan Vilade, a Major League Baseball Player, and Red Patterson, a former Major League Baseball player. The gridiron also saw Frisco graduates succeed, with Jack Anderson, a National Football League player for the Buffalo Bills, and Matt Lepsis, a former National Football League player for the Denver Broncos, making their mark.

Pro/D1 alumni
4
Class
5A
Key Players
  • Ryan Vilade — , Major League Baseball Player
  • Jack Anderson — , National Football League player for the Buffalo Bills
  • Matt Lepsis — , former National Football League player for the Denver Broncos and Super Bowl XXXIII winn
  • Red Patterson — , former Major League Baseball player
The moment

Matt Lepsis was a former National Football League player for the Denver Broncos.

Sources: Wikipedia · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)
🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 5A · Boys Basketball · 2026

Heritage Coyotes — 2026 UIL 5A Division 1 Boys Basketball State Champions

Most recent: 2026 5A Division 1

Frisco's Heritage High School, a familiar name in Class 5A athletics, has established a notable presence in boys basketball. The Eagles secured a significant UIL State Championship in 2026, competing at the 5A Division 1 level. This achievement highlights a period of strong performance for the program.

The community in Frisco has supported Heritage High School's athletic endeavors, watching as their teams compete. The school's boys basketball program continues to be a point of pride, contributing to the rich tapestry of Texas high school sports.

State titles
2026
Most recent
2026
Class
5A
The moment

The 2026 5A Division 1 UIL State Championship stands as a high point for Heritage High School boys basketball.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)
🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 5A · Girls Basketball · 2020–2024

Liberty — UIL 5A Girls Basketball State Champions — 3 titles

Most recent: 2024 5A

The Liberty High School Redhawks girls' basketball team in Frisco has established itself as a formidable presence in Texas Class 5A basketball. With a strong record of success, the program has secured multiple state championships, bringing pride to the community and showcasing consistent performance on the court. Their achievements reflect sustained excellence in high school athletics.

The Redhawks have captured the UIL Class 5A State Championship title three times, with victories in 2024, 2023, and 2020. These championships highlight a period of significant accomplishment for Liberty High School's girls' basketball program, marking them as a standout team in the competitive landscape of Texas high school sports.

State titles
3 (2020–2024)
Most recent
2024
Class
5A
The moment

The 2024 Class 5A State Championship marks their most recent triumph.

Sources: UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)

Everything Near Frisco

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