Lewisville District Court

US 82 and SR 29 meet in the Southern part of Lewisville.

Lewisville started out as Old Lewisville and was designated as the county seat of Lafayette county around 1842. It had an inauspicious beginning; criminals liked to stay there and it inherited its place as a trading center being the only town of size in the area. When the St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas Railroad wanted to place a rail line through Old Lewisville in the early 1880's; the citizens of the town protested. An organization from St. Louis bought two hundred forty acres two or three miles to the North for the railroad right of way and laid out a new town which became “New Lewisville.” It later became just Lewisville when postal service to Old Lewisville was discontinued. The town did not grow at first, but after a merchant moved his store to the new area; the residents in the old town saw the handwriting on the wall and voted to move the entire town closer to the railroad. The opening of the pine forests was a boon to the town's economy around 1889; however the lumber supply dried up causing the mills in town to close down Visitors to Old Lewisville around 1893 would report that it was a ghost town.