Grapevine, Texas

Everything Grapevine is known for

2 songs mention this city 2 artists from here

Music in Grapevine

Songs About Grapevine

Grapevine
BigXthaPlug
90%
"Grapevine"
The Night Hank Williams Came To Town (feat. Waylon Jennings)
Johnny Cash
3%
"I drove on out to Grapevine and picked old Mavis up"

Artists From Grapevine

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Post Malone
pop Pop: 87
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Norah Jones
jazz Pop: 72

Rivers & Roads in Song near Grapevine

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

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

History of Grapevine

Choosing a Vineyard RoadyGoat

You're in Grapevine, Texas, so here's the grapevine tangent behind the name: vineyards balance climate, season length, freeze and hail risk, rainfall, drainage, soil depth, slope, disease pressure, labor, and market. Soil does not directly pour a flavor into wine, but it influences water and root behavior. Grapevines tolerate relatively lean ground when drainage is good; excessive fertility may produce leafy growth at the expense of balanced fruit. Fungal diseases thrive in some humid conditions. In the nineteenth century, the root-feeding insect phylloxera devastated European vineyards until growers grafted European wine grapes onto resistant American rootstocks, a global rescue built from North American grape biology.

The Prairie That Named the Town RoadyGoat

You're in Grapevine, Texas, so here's the grapevine tangent behind the name: town founders proposed Grape Vine because the settlement stood on Grapevine Prairie. Native mustang grapes grow across Texas, producing small dark fruit on vigorous woody vines. Grapevines climb by tendrils that coil around supports, lifting leaves toward sunlight without building a self-supporting trunk. The post office later compressed Grape Vine into Grapevine. The name therefore preserves local vegetation rather than proving a commercial vineyard stood at the town center. Wild vines, prairie edge, and postal spelling together created the modern label.

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How Wine Ferments RoadyGoat

You're in Grapevine, Texas, so here's the grapevine tangent behind the name: yeast converts grape sugars primarily into ethanol and carbon dioxide, while temperature, oxygen exposure, grape microbes, nutrients, skins, and time shape hundreds of secondary aromas and flavors. Red wines usually ferment with skins for color and tannin; many white wines separate juice first. Grape stomping was a practical way to crush fruit before mechanical equipment and survives as festival theater, though commercial wineries use controlled crushers and sanitation. Texas wine is older than modern branding: Spanish mission-era viticulture preceded nineteenth-century immigrant vineyards and today's multiple growing regions.

Quinn Ewers at Southlake Carroll

Quinn Ewers, Southlake Carroll (Carroll Senior HS, grades 11-12). Sophomore 2019: ~4,000 pass yds, 45 TD, 3 INT, team 13-1, District 5-6A unanimous MVP. Junior 2020: 2,442 yds, 28 TD, missed ~6 games (core-muscle injury), reached 6A Div I state title game (lost to Westlake). Career (22 games): 6,445 pass yds, 73 TD. No. 1 overall recruit, class of 2022. Reclassified Aug 2021, skipped senior season, enrolled early at Ohio State for NIL (deal reported ~$1.4M). Sources: Wikipedia, MaxPreps, WFAA, 247Sports, CBS Sports, ESPN, USA Today HSS.

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Gano, Richard Montgomery

1862

Richard Montgomery Gano, doctor, soldier, and minister, son of John Allen and Mary Catherine (Conn) Gano, was born in Bourbon County, Kentucky, on June 17, 1830. The elder Gano was a minister of the Disciples of Christ and was associated with Alexander Campbell and Barton W. Stone in the restoration movement. Richard was baptized into that church at the age of ten. At twelve he went to Bacon College in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. At about seventeen he completed his collegiate course at Bethany College in Virginia and around 1850 graduated from Louisville Medical University in Kentucky. He practiced medicine for about eight years in Kentucky and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1853 he married Martha (Mattie) J. Welch of Crab Orchard, Kentucky. The couple eventually had twelve children, nine of whom lived to maturity. The family had moved to Texas by 1859 and settled at Grapevine Prairie, where Gano began farming, raising stock, and practicing medicine. He helped organize a company and went in pursuit of a Comanche raiding party when it swept through Parker and Wise counties in 1858. He was awarded a sword by the citizens of Tarrant County for his efforts. In 1860 he was elected to represent the county in the Texas legislature, where he was responsible for a bill on frontier protection and was active in floor discussions relating to livestock interests. He resigned his seat to enter the Confederate Army and began active duty as a cavalry captain in January 1862. Early in the war he organized two companies of Texas cavalry at the request of his friend Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and joined forces with John Hunt Morgan; he served in Kentucky in 1862. He was promoted to colonel of the Seventh Kentucky Cavalry and served in the Tullahoma campaign of June 1863. He left active service for a short time because of ill health and then was transferred to the Trans-Mississippi Department in late 1863. There he was assigned by Gen. E. Kirby Smith to the command of a brigade of cavalry and of artillery operating in Arkansas, Indian Territory, and Missouri. On September 19, 1864, at the battle of Cabin Creek in Indian Territory, Gano was wounded as his forces captured an enemy supply train valued at $2 million. He was officially promoted to brigadier general on March 17, 1865, and was recommended for promotion to major general, but the war ended before the commission was issued. After the war Gano returned to Kentucky and entered the ministry of the Disciples of Christ. By 1870 he was in Dallas County, Texas, where he was a minister and stock farmer. His ministry spanned forty-five years, and he established many churches. He also made a speaking tour during the prohibition campaign of 1887 to promote a Texas prohibition amendment. Gano was responsible for importing much fine blooded livestock into Texas, including cattle, horses, sheep, and hogs. He formed a real estate company with two of his sons and was vice president of the Estado Land and Cattle Company. He also served as director of the Bankers and Merchants National Bank. He was active in the United Confederate Veterans. Gano died on March 27, 1913, in Dallas, Texas, and is buried there in Oakland Cemetery. Gano's log house has been moved from Grapevine to Old City Park in Dallas.

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Grapevine, TX (Tarrant County)

1844

Grapevine, Texas, is located along State Highways 114 and 121 in the northeastern corner of Tarrant County. Some small sections of the city extend into Dallas and Denton counties. Grapevine is north of the West Fork of the Trinity River and lies on the edge of the Grapevine Prairie and the Eastern Cross Timbers. Grapevine Lake extends from northern Grapevine into neighboring Denton County to the north. The first permanent Anglo settlement in the Grapevine area was known as the "Missouri Colony." In 1844 a group of "related families from Platte County, Missouri," settled along Denton Creek in the vicinity of present-day Grapevine on land that was then part of the Peters Colony . By July 1846 children were receiving their education from John Allen Freeman in a log schoolhouse. The first church in the area was the Lonesome Dove Baptist Church, founded in 1846 and located about five miles northwest of Grapevine. Grapevine First Baptist Church was established in the early 1850s. Around 1854 Judge James Tracy Morehead, Archibald Franklin Leonard , and Henry L. Suggs, among others, met for the purpose of laying out a town and establishing a post office. Morehead proposed the name "Grape Vine," due to the settlement's location on the Grapevine Prairie. Leonard, who operated the first store in town, was appointed the first postmaster. Grape Vine (as two words) was incorporated on February 12, 1907. The United States Post Office condensed the name to just one word, Grapevine, in 1914. The first houses built in Grapevine were simple log cabins occupied by settlers. Later the "typical 19th-century Grapevine house was a one-story wood-frame dwelling...topped with a gable or hipped roof." Prior to the Civil War , cattle raising was the primary source of economic activity in the region. Grapevine Masonic Lodge No. 288 was chartered in 1866. In 1869 the Grapevine Independent School District was established; its first school was the Grapevine Masonic Institute, built by the Grapevine Masonic Lodge. In the late 1860s and 1870s, improvements to the plow allowed Grapevine farmers to cut through the black soils of the prairie and cultivate a variety of crops. By the mid-1880s Grapevine had a population of approximately 550. The town had, according to the Texas State Gazetteer and Business Directory of 1884-85, three gristmills and cotton gins, a public school, four physicians, Methodist and Baptist churches, and a number of businesses, including grocers, drugstores, blacksmiths, a hotel, and an art gallery. Daily stages traveled, at a rate of five cents per mile, to Dallas and Fort Worth. In 1888 the St. Louis, Arkansas, and Texas Railway arrived and provided a way for farmers to get their products to broader markets. The railroad transformed Grapevine into an agricultural trade center and facilitated the development of cotton as a cash crop in the region. The town's commercial district, consisting of single-story and two-story brick buildings, developed throughout the 1880s and 1890s. Grapevine's first local newspaper was the Grapevine Globe , established sometime before its sale in 1882. The Grapevine Sun, established by future Grapevine mayor Benjamin Richard Wall in 1895, was in publication until 1977. The town showed growth into the early twentieth century, with population figures of 681 in 1910 and 821 in 1920. In 1921 the Grapevine Fire Department was chartered, but, as in preceding decades, the community was dependent on volunteer firefighters. (Grapevine's first paid fire chief was hired in 1973.) The first public library opened on March 3, 1923, as part of the Tarrant County Free Library. In 1948 the United States Army Corps of Engineers began construction on the Grapevine Dam for the purpose of "flood control, recreation, and a water supply." The reservoir project, which created Grapevine Lake, was completed in 1952. The town's population grew from 1,043 in 1940 to 2,821 by 1960. In 1965 the cities of Dallas and Fort Worth joined togeth

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Quayle, William

1863

William Quayle, Civil War officer, was born in Kirk Michael Parish, Isle of Man, on October 18, 1825. His parents came to America when he was a child and settled in Ontario County, New York. He attended Canadagua Academy. He went to sea for nearly ten years and eventually became a captain. He later traveled in Europe and Asia and was broken in health upon his return to America. He moved to Texas in the 1850s and settled near Grapevine, where he served as a district clerk, district judge, and chief justice of Tarrant County. He was opposed to secession ; nonetheless he organized Company A, Ninth Texas Cavalry, the first company to leave Tarrant County for Confederate service. As lieutenant colonel he commanded the regiment at the battles of Pea Ridge and Corinth but soon returned to Tarrant County in poor health. Shortly after Quayle's return he won election to the state Senate and took his seat in February 1863. He served as cochairman on the Joint Committee on Frontier Protection and worked to push through the bill to transfer the Frontier Regiment to the Confederate Army and to form the state-supported Frontier Organization . In January 1864 Governor Pendleton Murrah appointed Quayle major in command of the First Frontier District, the nineteen organized counties on the state's northwestern frontier. From headquarters at Decatur, Quayle struggled throughout the spring and summer to maintain order in this, the most complex and difficult district to manage in the entire frontier organization. As well as patrolling against Indian raids, his men were kept busy searching for deserters, draft dodgers, and renegades. By summer's end, with his health failing, Quayle requested to be relieved. His replacement, James Webb Throckmorton , took command of the district on December 13, 1864. Quayle served briefly as Throckmorton's second-in-command until March 1865, when poor health required him to take a furlough. At the end of the war Quayle joined other Confederate officers and moved to Mexico for several years. He returned to Texas briefly, then moved to Missouri, where he lived the remainder of his life. He first married Sarah Henderson of Mississippi, then Elizabeth Terrill of Missouri. Quayle died at his home in Moberly, Missouri, on August 8, 1901.

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Nash Farm

1859

NASH FARM ESTABLISHED IN 1859, THE NASH FARM CONSTITUTES ONE OF THE LAST REMAINING AGRARIAN SITES FROM THE 19TH CENTURY IN NORTH TEXAS IN THE REGION WHERE THERE WAS ONCE A PERVASIVE LANDSCAPE OF FARMSTEADS. THOMAS JEFFERSON NASH, ELIZABETH MOUSER NASH AND THEIR FIRST THREE CHILDREN MIGRATED FROM KENTUCKY TO TEXAS IN 1854, FIRST SETTLING IN DALLAS AND THEN MOVING WITHIN A FEW MONTHS TO THE GRAPEVINE VICINITY. THEY WERE JOINED BY THOMAS’ BROTHER, WILLIAM P. NASH. BY 1859, THEY SETTLED PERMANENTLY ON THIS SITE. THE ORIGINAL FARM PROPERTY CONSISTED OF 450 ACRES WITH A VARIETY OF CROPS AND ANIMALS. DURING THE CIVIL WAR, THOMAS AND WILLIAM LEFT TO SERVE WITH CONFEDERATE TROOPS. THEY LEFT THE FARM IN THE CARE OF ELIZABETH AND THE CHILDREN; BOTH SURVIVED THE WAR AND RETURNED HOME TO ENLARGE THEIR FARM HOLDINGS. THE NASH FARMHOUSE, CONSTRUCTED IN 1869, IS A TWO-STORY I-HOUSE WITH A ONE-STORY ATTACHED PARTIAL WIDTH FRONT PORCH. THE PROPERTY ALSO BOASTS A 1907 SECONDARY GABLE-ROOFED WOOD FRAME TRANSVERSE BARN, OR CRIB BARN, A CEMETERY DATING TO 1878 AND A BRICK CISTERN DRESSED WITH A BRICK RIM AND DECORATIVE METAL CISTERN DRAW. IN 1888, THOMAS AND ELIZABETH GAVE LAND FOR THE RIGHT OF WAY TO THE COTTON BELT RAILROAD, WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE GRAPEVINE AREA. THE FARM REMAINED IN THE NASH FAMILY UNTIL THE 1920s. REHABILITATION OF THE PROPERTY IN 2008 RESTORED THE FARM AND ITS HISTORIC STRUCTURES, PRESERVING THEM FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS. IN 2010, THE PROPERTY WAS LISTED IN THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES. RECORDED TEXAS HISTORIC LANDMARK – 2014

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Dove Community

1843

The 1843 Bird's Fort Treaty between the Republic of Texas and several Native American tribes opened this area for new immigrants. In the ensuing years, a number of families from Platt County, Missouri and other parts of the United States migrated to this area and established the Cross Timbers community (now Grapevine). In February 1846, residents living on the northern edge of the community organized the Lonesome Dove Baptist Church in the fall of that year. In 1847, members built a long log structure approximately four miles northwest of Grapevine in the Eastern Cross Timbers. The Lonesome Dove School also began in 1846, and the Rev. John Allen Freeman served as schoolteacher as well as church pastor for ten years. In 1849, the state legislature created Tarrant County, with Birdville as county seat, and the U.S. Army established Fort Worth as a frontier fort. The small village of Dove developed by the 1870s. A general store and post office operated at the intersection of Dove and Lonesome Dove roads, and the community became a prosperous farming center for cotton, melon and dairy production. Included as part of the community were Lonesome Dove Cemetery just north of the church site, the Dove Branch swimming hole, used for recreation as well as baptisms, and Dove School, which consolidated with other area schools to form the Carroll Common School District in 1919. The federal government completed Lake Grapevine in 1952, requiring a number of families to relocate from the northern portion of the Dove Community. In 1979, the City of Southlake annexed Dove, but evidence of the early area community remains. (2006)

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Things to Do in Grapevine

historical 19.0 mi away
The Sixth Floor Museum

Where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from. The JFK assassination site at Dealey Plaza.
historical 19.0 mi away
Dealey Plaza

On November 22 1963 President John F Kennedy rode through Dealey Plaza in an open Lincoln convertible and was shot from the sixth floor window of the Texas…
historical 18.5 mi away
Fort Worth Stockyards

Daily cattle drives down the street. Honky-tonks and rodeos in the old West.
historical 18.6 mi away
Billy Bob's Texas

Billy Bob's opened in 1981 in an old cattle barn in the Fort Worth Stockyards and at one hundred twenty-seven thousand square feet it is the largest honky-tonk…
food 18.8 mi away
Joe T. Garcia's

Joe T opened his little family restaurant behind the packing plant in the Fort Worth Stockyards in 1935. There was no menu. His wife Jessie served whatever she…
quirky 21.3 mi away
Big Tex at the State Fair

A fifty-five-foot cowboy named Big Tex has welcomed visitors to the State Fair of Texas in Fair Park Dallas every fall since 1952. He booms howdy folks over a…
quirky 18.9 mi away
Goatman's Bridge

A 1884 iron bridge outside Denton haunted by the ghost of a murdered goat farmer.
food 19.9 mi away
Pecan Lodge

Dallas' best BBQ. The beef rib alone is worth the drive.
day trip
Day Trip to Grapevine 🎄 (FULL EPISODE) S6 E8

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Sports in Grapevine

🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 5A · Baseball · 2024–2025

Grapevine Mustangs — UIL 5A Baseball State Champions — 2 titles

Most recent: 2025 5A Division 2

Grapevine High School, nestled in the heart of Grapevine, Texas, has established a strong tradition in Class 5A baseball. The Mustangs have proudly claimed two UIL State Championships, first securing the 5A Division 2 title in 2025, and following up with another 5A championship in 2024. These achievements highlight a consistent level of excellence and dedication within the program, bringing state-level recognition to the community.

The school's baseball program has also been a launching pad for talented athletes. Among its notable alumni is Dasan Hill, who went on to play professionally. Grapevine's commitment to developing its student-athletes, both on and off the field, continues to be a point of pride for the local community, reflecting the vibrant spirit of high school sports in Texas.

State titles
2 (2024–2025)
Most recent
2025
Class
5A
Key Players
  • Dasan Hill — , MLB player
The moment

The 2025 5A Division 2 State Championship was a significant moment for Grapevine High School baseball.

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

Everything Near Grapevine

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