• The Quest for Water
• Mass Meeting Favors Incorporation
• Incorporation
• Water: The First Order of Business
• The Big Well
• A Thrilling Distraction
• The Richardson Chamber of Commerce is Organized
• The Big Day Finally Arrives
• Richardson's 1926 Water Tower and Pump House
• Richardson's First Police and Fire Protection
• The Cemetery Beautiful
• Sewer System Stalled and Installed
• First City Ordinances
• Taxation with Representation
• It's a Gas, Gas, Gas!
• Water, Water Everywhere?
• Sherwood Spotts, the Kissing Mayor
• Who Took This Photo?
• New School Additions Dedicated
• Too Much Water!
• Hob-Knobbing with the Big Boys (Sort of)
• Spotts Calls It Wrong
• The Birth of Owens Country Sausage
• The Post Office Moves Again
• Spotts Wraps It Up
• Kit C. Floyd, the Piccolo-playing Mayor
• Another Fatal Interurban Accident
• The Bunioneers Come to Town
• A Short-Lived Crime Wave
• Meanwhile, Back at the City Office
• Cotton Remains King
• Richardson's First City Hall
• Mayor Jess Harben
• The Penny Robbery
• Barton Lawson Photographs Richardson from Above
• Trades Day 1932
• A History Mystery: When was the Second City Hall Built?
• Tom McKamy Re-Elected
• Lights Out! And Other Complaints
• The Mystery Bomber
• Volunteer Fire Department Reorganized
• Fire Department Revives the Community Fair
• A Flattering Word Picture of Richardson
• How Richardson's Mayor Helped Bury a Bandit
• The Richardson Cooperative Cotton Gin Association is Formed
• A Proposed New Highway
• The Short-Lived Rebirth of the Richardson Chamber of Commerce
• Richardson's WPA Project: Community House
• Local Boys Join CCC Camp
• No More Passenger Service
• Clifford Huffhines, Tax Collector
• Sam Harben Rides the Centennial Train
• Richardson Visits the Centennial Exposition
• Tom Jackson, Five Term Mayor
• The Old Professor Visits
• A Landmark Bricked In
• Another Landmark Remodeled
• Street Signs and House Numbers
• The Cassidy Feed Mill: Richardson's Most Visible Business
• A Purpose-Built Post Office
• "Miss Belle" Dies
• Richardson Misses a Chance to Get an Airfield
• Richardson Gets a Movie Theater
• The War Years (1941-1945)
• No Fair!
• A Landmark Disappears
• Richardson Gets a Public Library
• "Why Doesn't Richardson Have a Flag?"
• "Our Boys in Service"
• Eloise Huffhines, "Our Girl in Service"

• The Richardson Chamber of Commerce is Born a Third Time
• The Fire Department Announces Fall Festival
• Owens Sausage Opens a New Plant
• The Iceman Cometh
• Richardson Gets a Clinic
• A New City Hall is Built (1947)
• Richardson's First Community Christmas Tree
• The Last Interurban
• What Happened to the Interurban Depot?
• What Happened to the Interurban Tracks?
• A School Bus Accident That Could Have Been Worse
• Get On the Bus!
• Miles of Roads
• A New Housing Addition is Annexed
• A High School Stadium is Built
• The Telephone Building Gets Bigger
• A Premature Celebration
• Whole Lot of Annexing Going On
• Goodbye to the Mayor and the Barber
• An Aldermanic Form of Government is Adopted
• A New High School is Built
• Garbage Collection Begins
• Cassidy Feed Mills Gets Even More Visible
• Central Expressway Reaches Richardson
• The Central Expressway Industrial District
• Citizens State Bank Moves
• A New Telephone Exchange
• The End of Harben's Drug Store
• A New Police Department (1955)
• The Home Building Boom Begins
• Turning to Dallas for Water
• Richardson's First Two Shopping Centers
• The Santa Fe "Texas Chief" is Routed Through Richardson
• The Elephant in the Road
• A New City Hall is Built (1956)
• A New City Fire Station (1956)
• Home Rule Comes to Richardson
• Collins Radio Arrives
• Texas Instruments Arrives
• How the Microchip was Invented on Richardson's Doorstep
• Some Other Large Employers
• Richardson High School Band Marches in Inaugural Parade
• Richardson Savings and Loan Opens
• Arapaho Drive-In
• A New Post Office (1956)
• Two New Parks
• A New Water Tower and Community House
• New Papers
• A New Library (1959)
• A New Neighborhood in East Richardson
• The Last Cotton Gin
• The First Community Fourth
• Richardson's Role in the Space Race
• Owens' Spring Creek Farm Opens
• UTD is Born
• Richardson's First Skyscraper
• A Bigger New High School Opens (1960)
• The Richardson Symphony Orchestra is Born
• Two More New Parks
• The 1962 Comprehensive Plan
• Richardson Gets a New Hospital
• A New Post Office Already?
• The Accused Assassin's Widow
• A Future President Visits
• A New Home for Two Lodges
• "Remarkable Richardson"
• Richardsonites? Or Richardsonians?
• Richardson Schools Desegregated
• A New Logo for the City
• Routh Mansion Burns
• East Richardson Gets a New Park
• More Parks Than You Shake a Stick At
• A Street Changes Names
• The Mayor Resigns
• "Mars Needs Women"
• Another New High School (Pearce)
• A New Library (1970)
• Another New High School (Berkner)
• The Richardson Historical Society is Born
• Great Beasts Once Roamed Here
• Richland College Opens
• Another New Logo for the City
• How Richardson Celebrated Its Centennial
• Kidnapped
• A Golf Course for the Masses
• No Pinball for You!
• Richardson Celebrates the U.S. Bicentennial
• Richardson Square Mall Opens
• New Post Office (1978)
• Richardson's New Civic Center (1980)
• "Miss Belle's Place" Becomes a Historic Landmark

CHAPTER 3: The Telecom Corridor®

CHAPTER 4: Another New Century Begins

MAYORS OF RICHARDSON

SOME NOTEWORTHY RESIDENTS

SOME EVENTS IN THE HISTORY OF RICHARDSON, TEXAS, 1925-2023

Index

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