What’s the point of Hebron? Google says it’s its own town, but it’s just a few scattered sections of Carrolton and a bit of Plano. Zoning? Tax avoidance? Always wondered.

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Still_Detail_4285@reddit

Bum Bright and his friends set it up so they did not have to pay taxes. His son Chris turned some of that land into Castle Hills.

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z9vown@reddit

Hebron goes bank a lot further than But Bright, it was a farming community in the 1800's.

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Still_Detail_4285@reddit

The city was incorporated in 1961. It was just to not pay taxes.

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kamezzle13@reddit

Castle Hills either is, or used to be similar. An Extraterritorial Jurisdiction where county laws but not city laws apply.

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UncleStains@reddit

Castle Hills was never its own town. It was just county land with utilities provided by the Denton County Fresh Water Supply District. It was all annexed by Lewisville a few years ago.

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Castle Hills was its own city and incurred over $700M in debt to build the neighborhood. Chris Bright had Lewisville annex the neighborhood and take on the debt. It’s the only photo I have ever seen of the man smiling.

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kamezzle13@reddit

Castle Hills was its own EJT. I operated a business there prior to COVID. The only reason I was able to have the business there was solely bc of the lack of city level rules.

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hullowurld@reddit

The end of the history section on the wiki is probably your answer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron,_Texas

For the last 20 years, Hebron has disannexed large portions of its territory to be annexed by neighboring communities (Lewisville, The Colony, Carrollton, and Plano) instead. The original goal was for Hebron to disappear entirely as an incorporated community, but recently elected leaders have attempted to reverse the situation and allow Hebron to continue as a town. This is partially in response to the city of Carrollton's threatening not to maintain the water supply unless the town is annexed to Carrollton.

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us287@reddit

There are a lot of small towns in the area that’ve been annexed. The Stonebriar area used to be Lebanon, Texas.

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SameSadMan@reddit

Amazing. Never knew that.

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Cranky0ldMan@reddit

TBF, they didn't bulldoze the city hall of Lebanon then immediately start pouring concrete for the Stonebriar parking lots. I believe there was a car dealer at that corner of Preston and 121 right before the mall came in.

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Sufficient-Daikon-81@reddit

Yes, there was a Ford dealer just south of the whorehouse there on Preston

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Dapper-Lie9772@reddit

The ol Doll House 🤣. Good memories

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Cranky0ldMan@reddit

According to FISD, it was Lebanon Trail, Texas.

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Witty_Desk8246@reddit

Also Lolaville at 121 and Preston. Still appears on some maps.

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Vikings284@reddit

Sounds more and more like the other Hebron.

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Database_Informal@reddit

Buckingham was an even more interesting story. A city surrounded by Richardson for the sake of a liquor store.

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djo165@reddit

Best reason for any town's existence! Some of us are old enough to remember when you had to drive for several miles to find a beer or liquor store in Texas.

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Nicepahp@reddit

Nestle this in TIL. Have been delivering to this area for over a decade and nothing has been listed “Hebron, TX” so this is all news to me 🤣

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Big__If_True@reddit

There’s no Hebron post office so the addresses in the area are either Carrollton or Hebron

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FlirtAndSquirt1@reddit

Same reason you see Crowley even though it’s surrounded by Plano

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Csharp27@reddit (OP)

Where’s Crowley? On maps it only gives me the Crowley out past Fort Worth.

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Big__If_True@reddit

Another comment said it’s Cowley

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Twisted9Demented@reddit

Peter's colony, castle hills

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GrantDaGenius@reddit

I’ve lived off of Hebron (the road) my entire life and this is the first time I’ve ever heard it’s actually its own tiny town 😂

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hamlet_d@reddit

Look up Cowley.

Not CRowley, but Cowley. It's literally a small unincorporated parcel of land in Plano. Why does it even exist?

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Weimanxi@reddit

It used to be the only place you could buy booze in the area

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PseudonymIncognito@reddit

It looks like that's pretty much it. They incorporated back in the 60s to keep Plano or Carrollton from annexing them, and when a local landowner wanted to sell out to developers, they'd deannex their land so it could get annexed by a city that actually wanted to provide services.

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The town was first incorporated in 1961 as a method to prevent Plano and Carrollton from annexing the territory and imposing taxes. The city of Hebron imposed no taxes of its own, and when the time was ripe for a landowner to develop his land, he would ask the town to disannex that parcel.

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jackrs89@reddit

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron,_Texas