About Lewisville, AR
How we began...
Lewisville is the county seat of Lafayette County. Settled about the time Arkansas became a state but relocated by the building of railroads half a century later. Lafayette County consisted of land claimed by the Caddo until a treaty of 1835 moved them west to what was then northern Mexico and Indian Territory ( now Texas and Oklahoma ).
Settlers of European origin quickly arrived in the newly opened land. One of them, Lewis Barnes Fort, bought land on July 6, 1836, on the site where Lewisville would later be built. Records indicate that Fort and his family came to Arkansas from Virginia. The settlement came to be known as Lewisville, taken from his first name, well before it was incorporated in 1850.
The City of Lewisville has been in existence since then as a second-class city. Our population is currently at approximately 1280. Our school incorporates Buckner, Falcon, Lewisville, Stamps and surrounding areas reaching as far east as the City of Garland in adjoining Miller County.