Old Frisco: The Town the Railroad Built

Long before glass office towers and a soccer stadium, Frisco was a water stop on a brand-new railroad. When the St. Louis and San Francisco line — the "Frisco" — pushed through this stretch of Collin County in 1902, it bypassed the older settlements scattered across the blackland prairie, and one by one those towns picked up and moved to the tracks. Lebanon, Rock Hill, and other crossroads communities sent their stores, churches, and even whole houses rolling toward the new depot, and the town that gathered there took the railroad's nickname for its own. This tour follows that migration. You'll stand at a depot the line saved from demolition, visit a pioneer home hauled in from a vanished town, trace the old cattle road that crossed the prairie before any rails did, and end at the quiet sites where Lebanon and Rock Hill once stood.