Today Grand Prairie is a thriving Metroplex city, proud of its prairie name, its aviation heritage, and the racing at Lone Star Park, with the lakes and parks of Joe Pool and Mountain Creek at its edges. Its story runs from the Peters' Colony grassland through the 1863 rail-town founding, the wartime Mustangs and Liberators, and the modern city between two cities. Our Grand Prairie designs gather that identity into wearable form — the prairie, the propellers, the post position. Grand Prairie, Texas — on the edge of the great grassland between two cities.
The land here was Peters' Colony prairie before the Civil War, a stretch of the great Texas grassland crossed by trading paths between Dallas and Fort Worth. In 1863 the settler Alexander McRae Dechman founded the community first known as Dechman; when the Texas & Pacific Railroad arrived in 1876 it became a depot town, and in 1877 it was renamed Grand Prairie for the grassland it sat on. The town incorporated in 1909, a farming and ranching crossroads on the rail line at the heart of what would become the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex.
Why People Visit Grand Prairie Texas
- Spend a day at Loyd Park on Joe Pool Lake, with trails, campsites, and boating.
- Catch live thoroughbred and quarter-horse racing at Lone Star Park during the spring and fall meets.
- Walk the historic downtown around the Texas & Pacific rail depot.
- Cool off at the Epic Waters indoor waterpark, or browse the weekend stalls at Traders Village.
- Take in the prairie horizon and the lakes that frame the city north and south.
