Plano, Texas

Everything Plano is known for

6 songs mention this city 22 artists from here

Plano, Texas, a principal suburb of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, is home to a diverse array of musical talent. While not exclusively known as a music city, it has nurtured 22 artists across various genres. For instance, the metal band Polyphia and country artist Casey James both hail from Plano.

The city's connection to music is also captured in song, with six tracks mentioning Plano. Among these are "Plano Texas Girl" by Houston Marchman & The Contraband and "Plano" by sandy crow. Plano also has a thriving arts and culture scene, with venues like the Courtyard Theater and McCall Plaza regularly hosting live music events.

Music in Plano

Songs About Plano

Plano Texas Girl
Houston Marchman & The Contraband
81%
Plano
TJ Monterde
80%
"Song about Plano"
Plano
sandy crow
80%
"Song about Plano"
Plano
Daddy Longhead
80%
"Song about Plano"
Plano
The Shortlist
80%
"Song about Plano"
glorieta
matt hilyer
9%

Artists From Plano

P
Polyphia
metal Pop: 58
A
Absu
metal Pop: 50
C
Casey James
country Pop: 45
M
Magus
metal Pop: 38
K
Kevin McHale
r-n-b Pop: 38
A
Ace Aura
electronic Pop: 33
A
Anson Funderburgh
blues Pop: 31
Q
Quindon Tarver
pop Pop: 28
K
Kenton Duty
other Pop: 26
M
Mark David Manders
country Pop: 24
M
Morbid Scream
metal Pop: 24
D
Divine Eve
metal Pop: 22
C
Chaz Marie
country Pop: 1
P
Proscriptor
metal Pop: 1
X
X Opus
other Pop: 1
V
Voot Cha Index
other Pop: 1
O
Ossuarist
metal Pop: 1
O
OnceBefore
other Pop: 1
M
Marsai Martin
other Pop: 1
J
Jeffrey Dee
other Pop: 1

Showing top 20 of 22 artists

Rivers & Roads in Song near Plano

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

Interstate 45 2 songs Trinity River 8 songs Interstate 20 10 songs Interstate 35 27 songs Sabine River 10 songs Texas State Highway 199 8 songs

History of Plano

The Muncey Massacre: Collin County's Last Fatal Raid RoadyGoat

1840

In the fall of 1844, Jeremiah Muncey and his family were killed in an Indian raid at their homestead on the south bank of Rowlett Creek in what is now north Plano, between present-day Plano Road and Jupiter Road. Muncey and his neighbor McBain Jameson had settled the area in the early 1840s. The raiders camped upstream the night before; as they moved down the creek they came upon two boys hunting, killing the Rice boy while the Searcy boy escaped. At the Muncey place they killed Jeremiah Muncey, his wife, a three-year-old child, and Jameson; two of the Muncey boys were carried off and never found, while another son survived only because he was away at the Throckmorton settlement. Neighbors Leonard Searcy and William Rice discovered the bodies and rushed to their own sons hunting nearby. The site and the victims' graves lie about a mile northwest of the 1976 Texas Historical Commission marker on Spring Creek Parkway. Though Indian raids continued across Texas into the late 1800s and were fought by the Texas Rangers, the Muncey Massacre is remembered as the last fatal Indian raid in Collin County.

The Summer One Sliver of Germanium Changed Everything RoadyGoat

1958

Right here in Dallas, on September 12, 1958, a brand-new Texas Instruments engineer named Jack Kilby switched on the first working integrated circuit. It was a tiny sliver of germanium, about the size of a fingernail, and it ran as an oscillator. That sounds small, but it cracked a problem engineers called the tyranny of numbers. Complex electronics meant soldering thousands of separate parts together by hand, and every new design only made the tangle worse. Kilby's leap was simple and a little crazy: make the components and the wiring out of one single block of semiconductor. Build the whole circuit as one piece. He was the first to make it work. Months later, in 1959, Robert Noyce at Fairchild independently built a silicon version, using a process the industry could actually scale up. When Kilby won the Nobel Prize in 2000, the citation carefully said it was for his part in the invention. First working chip here in germanium, Noyce's silicon the one that grew into everything.

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Why It's Called an Integrated Circuit RoadyGoat

Here is a question worth slowing down for: what is an integrated circuit, really? Think about an old-fashioned circuit first. It was a pile of separate parts. Transistors, resistors, capacitors, each one its own little piece, all wired together by hand. The integrated circuit does something different and kind of magical. It makes all of those components, and the wires connecting them, out of one continuous piece of semiconductor. That is exactly what the word integrated means. The parts are not assembled, they are all combined into one. They get fabricated together, in the same block, in the same step. That is the whole trick. And once nothing has to be hand-soldered, you can make the entire circuit impossibly small and remarkably reliable, because there are no fragile little connections to come loose. The parts and the connections are born together. That single idea is the foundation under every phone, laptop, and car computer you will ever touch.

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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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Harrington, Gladys Haggard Bishop

1950

Gladys Haggard Bishop Harrington, Plano civic leader, was born in Paris, Texas, on May 29, 1901, to Nannie Elizabeth (Haggard) Bishop, the daughter of early Plano settler Clinton Shepherd Haggard, and Thomas C. Bishop. She moved to Plano with her mother, sister Mary Elizabeth, and brother Clinton Conner after the death of her father in 1912 to be closer to relatives. Gladys Bishop married Fredrick Joseph Harrington on October 8, 1919, shortly after graduating from Plano High School. The couple lived on a farm located northeast of present-day Parker and Preston roads in Plano until the death of Fred Harrington in 1948. Gladys Harrington became one of the first female licensed drivers in Collin County after learning to drive the family's DeSoto automobile to attend church and club meetings in Plano. She made do with one summer dress and one winter dress throughout the Great Depression . Harrington moved into town in the early 1950s and designed her house on Avenue H near downtown Plano. About that time she began traveling widely and eventually visited every continent except Africa and Antarctica. Though she never attended college, Harrington is credited with creating the first public library to serve Plano and the surrounding communities. She became president of the Plano Federation of Church Women in 1953 and, with $60 and ninety-seven books, led the group in organizing a community free reading service. The federation ceased to exist in 1955, and Harrington spent the next several years working to sustain the book service and advocating the establishment of a permanent library in Plano. She persuaded individuals and groups to donate books, building space, and lumber; to build shelves; and to act as librarians for the start-up institution. Harrington taught herself the basics of library science and how to submit grant applications for funding. The city of Plano assumed financial responsibility of the library in 1965. On June 2, 1969, after a successful bond election, the city of Plano opened its first library building. It was appropriately named the Gladys Harrington Public Library. Harrington continued in her role as an education and literacy advocate throughout her life. She was a frequent visitor to area public school classrooms, where she encouraged children to explore the world through books. Harrington told hundreds of school children that they would never be lonely if they learned to read. In 2003 she was awarded an honorary associate of arts degree and named the first Living Legends recipient by the Collin County Community College District in recognition of her work launching the library. Harrington was an active supporter of the Republican party in Texas. Each election year during her more than thirty years as a Republican precinct chair, she personally visited every registered voter in Collin County's Precinct 23. Her son Fred Conner Harington was a founder of the Collin County Republican Men's Club and briefly served as mayor of Plano before his death in 1970. The following year Harrington organized a Collin County Republican women's club, named the Conner Harrington Republican Women's Club in her son's honor. She served as president of the club and was also president of the Plano Republican Women's Club. Harrington was also an active member of Plano's First Christian Church, where she served as a deaconess and Sunday school teacher. Harrington was a founding board member of the Plano Symphony Orchestra Association and an underwriter of the orchestra's Collin County Young Artist Competition. She was a founding member of the Plano Heritage Association and the Thompson Book Review Club. She was active in the Plano Chamber of Commerce, the Fine Arts League of Plano, the Plano chapter of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, the Daughters of the American Revolution , and the United Daughters of the Confederacy . She was also an honorary member of the Collin County Genealogical Society, the Plano Jaycee-ettes, and Beta Sigma Phi. Gladys H

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Muncey Massacre

1844

McBain Jameson and Jeremiah Muncey settled in this vicinity in 1840 and 1842. While hunting in late 1844, William Rice and Leonard Searcy came to Muncey's hut and found the savagely slain bodies of Jameson, Muncey, Mrs. Muncey, and a small child, and recognized signs of an Indian raid. The men sped out to their own sons, who were hunting nearby. Young Searcy was found safe, but Rice had been killed. Two Muncey boys disappeared, never to be found. Another was at Throckmorton settlement. That was the last tragic Indian raid in Collin county. (1976) Supplemental plaque added 1998: Historical marker relocated to this site in 1998. The site of the Muncey home and graves of the victims are approximately one mile northwest of this site.

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Officer David Sherrard Memorial Highway

2018

Honors Richardson PD SWAT Officer David Sherrard, first Richardson PD line-of-duty death in the department's 63-year history, killed February 7, 2018, at the Breckinridge Point Apartments. Honorary segment on US-75 through Richardson.

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Richardson, TX

1858

Richardson, one of the largest small cities in Texas, is located about fourteen miles north of downtown Dallas on Central Expressway (U.S. Highway 75). The Red Line of the DART (Dallas Area Rapid Transit) light rail system parallels the highway. The majority of Richardson is located in northern Dallas County with a smaller portion in southern Collin County. Encompassing slightly more than twenty-eight-square-miles, Richardson has an irregular shape, bounded on the west, northwest, and south by Dallas, by Garland on the east and south, by Plano and Murphy on the north, and Sachse on the east. Several small streams, most notably Prairie, Spring, Duck, and Cottonwood creeks, flow through the city. Between 1841 and 1853 the land that makes up Richardson was part of the Peters Colony . In 1858 a small forerunner settlement, called Breckinridge in honor of U. S. vice president John C. Breckinridge, was established on land belonging to settler John B. Floyd, between present-day Richland College and Restland Memorial Park. Breckinridge, which consisted of a U. S. post office, a general store, a blacksmith shop, and an inn, was served by a Sawyer, Risher, and Hall stagecoach line ( see RISHER AND HALL STAGE LINES ). The settlement lasted until just after 1873, when the Houston and Texas Central (H&TC) Railroad bypassed it in favor of a new town, named in honor of H&TC secretary Alfred Stephen Richardson. For nominal sums, two local landowners, William J. Wheeler and Bernard Reilly, sold a combined 101 acres of land for the townsite in April 1873, but due to a deed record error, the first and subsequent maps of the town showed its size as 121 acres. Some sources have claimed that Wheeler refused to allow the town to be named for him, but this story is apocryphal. On June 23, 1873, the railroad trustees who purchased the townsite on the railroad's behalf dedicated a right-of-way through Richardson to the H&TC. The following year they sold the townsite to the railroad for the same price they had paid for the land. Soon after, the first town lot was sold. That same year, a school called the Patrons Institute, also known as the Wheeler School, was built just outside the town limits. During its first quarter century, Richardson grew slowly. Its business district consisted of one block adjacent to the railroad tracks and one block of Smith Street, the town's principal thoroughfare, now known as East Main Street. Richardson received a post office in 1874. In 1901, when drugstore operator Sam P. Harben launched the town's third and longest-running newspaper, the Richardson Echo , replacing the short-lived Richardson Register , there were only six businesses. Two were housed in brick buildings; the remainder in wood frame structures. The population at that time was under 150 people. Most of the Echo's first subscribers were area farmers who, following the Civil War , favored the cultivation of cotton over wheat, which before the war had been the area's principal crop. After the turn of the twentieth century, the town began to experience a much faster rate of growth, especially after 1908, when the Texas Traction Company's electric interurban railway , which connected Richardson to Dallas, Denison, and other points in North Texas, arrived. Its tracks ran parallel to those of the H&TC. Richardson had a population of 147 in 1904, but by 1925 it had more than doubled to 400. In 1900 the Richardson Independent School District (RISD) was established and built a new school to replace a previous structure that burned earlier that year, and in 1914 a larger, red brick schoolhouse, which subsequently served as the RISD's administration building, was constructed. In 1901 the Richardson Telephone Company was incorporated, and in 1904 the Citizens State Bank, the town's first financial institution, was opened. About 1907 a hotel was built, and in 1909, the same year in which the streets were graveled, developers began selling lots in the town's first additio

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Plano National Bank/I.O.O.F. Lodge Building

1895

After a building they shared was destroyed by fire in 1895, the Plano National Bank (est. 1887) and the I.O.O.F. (Odd Fellows) Lodge (est. 1870) erected this commercial building here in 1896. In 1936 the structure was redesigned by architect/builder Abe Cain with art deco detailing. The building was remodeled in 1958 but a 1980s restoration project returned it to its 1936 art deco appearance. Prominent features include Czechoslovakian black Carrara glass. Recorded Texas Historic Landmark - 1993

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Things to Do in Plano

historical 17.8 mi away
The Sixth Floor Museum

Where Lee Harvey Oswald fired from. The JFK assassination site at Dealey Plaza.
historical 17.8 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…
quirky 17.0 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 4.5 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…
historical 7.4 mi away
Southfork Ranch

The filming location of TV's Dallas. JR Ewing lived here.
spooky 14.2 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…
food 17.1 mi away
Pecan Lodge

Dallas' best BBQ. The beef rib alone is worth the drive.

Sports in Plano

⭐ HOMETOWN LEGENDS Class 3A · Baseball

Academy — Academy — a college & pro athletic pipeline

5 alumni who reached major-college or pro sports

Plano, Texas – Academy High School, a 3A powerhouse, has a proud tradition of developing athletes who excel beyond the high school level. Our hometown spotlight shines on several notable alumni who have gone on to compete in major college and professional sports. These former Academy Eagles have represented our community on national and international stages, demonstrating dedication and skill in their respective fields.

Among these accomplished individuals are Julius Randle, a basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves; J. R. Reed, an American football safety; and Cameron Rupp, an American professional baseball catcher in the Oakland Athletics organization. We also celebrate Matt Constant, a Soccer Center Back for Michigan Stars FC, and Xavier Mitchell, an American professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Angels organization. Their journeys inspire current and future Academy athletes.

Pro/D1 alumni
5
Class
3A
Founded
1997
Key Players
  • Julius Randle — basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves
  • J. R. Reed — American football safety
  • Cameron Rupp — American professional baseball catcher in the Oakland Athletics organization
  • Matt Constant — Soccer Center Back for Michigan Stars FC
  • Xavier Mitchell — American professional baseball pitcher in the Los Angeles Angels organization.
The moment

Julius Randle is a basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Sources: Wikipedia
🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 6A · Boys Basketball · 2024

Plano East Sr — 2024 UIL 6A Boys Basketball State Champions

Most recent: 2024 6A

Plano East Senior High School, representing Plano, Texas, in Class 6A boys basketball, has established itself among the state's elite. The Panthers proudly claimed a UIL State Championship in 2024. This achievement reflects consistent effort and a strong program within one of the state's most competitive classifications.

The community in Plano has a deep appreciation for high school sports, and the success of Plano East's basketball program adds to that rich tradition. While specific notable alumni who went professional or to major colleges are not listed, the program's state title speaks volumes about the quality of basketball played on their home court.

State titles
2024
Most recent
2024
Class
6A
The moment

The 2024 6A UIL State Championship stands as a high point for Plano East boys basketball.

Sources: UIL State Championship Archives · SI High School (ScoreBook Live)
🏆 STATE CHAMPIONS Class 6A · Girls Basketball · 2018

Plano Sr Wolfs — 2018 UIL 6A Girls Basketball State Champions

Most recent: 2018 6A

Plano Sr High School, a Class 6A powerhouse in girls' basketball, stands as a testament to consistent athletic excellence in the heart of Texas. The Wildcats have established a strong presence within the competitive UIL landscape, showcasing dedication and skill on the court.

The Plano community rallies behind its teams, fostering an environment where young athletes can thrive. While no specific alumni are listed as having gone pro or to major colleges from this program, the focus remains on the collective achievements and the spirit of high school sports in Plano.

State titles
2018
Most recent
2018
Class
6A
The moment

The Plano Sr High School girls' basketball team secured a significant victory by claiming the 6A State Championship in 2018.

Sources: Wikipedia · UIL State Championship Archives

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