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About Wylie

Wylie started out as Nickelville, a farm settlement on the Blackland Prairie of south Collin County. In 1886 the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway laid its tracks about half a mile north of town, and the shops picked up and moved to the line. The new town took the name of W. D. Wylie, the railroad's right-of-way agent. A second line, the Cotton Belt, arrived soon after. Wylie became a shipping point for cotton and for the sweet white onions that, for a time, made it known as an onion capital. Late-night shopping on Ballard Avenue earned it the nickname "Wide Awake Wylie." The building of Lavon Lake in the mid-twentieth century and the growth of Dallas turned the small farm town into one of North Texas's fastest-growing suburbs. Today it stretches into three counties and is home to more than 60,000 people. Historic Ballard Avenue is still its heart, with local shops, restaurants and festivals like Bluegrass on Ballard.

Sources: Handbook of Texas · City of Wylie: History · Wikipedia

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