About Grapevine
The agreement on peace, friendship, and commerce signed by General Sam Houston and the leaders of 10 Indian nations in 1843 became the beginning of Grapevine. The place to become the city of Grapevine got its name after the Grape Vine Prairie. It was named in homage to the wild grapes that grew all over the area. The early inhabitants worked mostly in cotton gins and railroad, but in the 20th century, cantaloupe farming became the main occupation. Until the 1970s, the city was known as “The Cantaloupe Capital of the World”. The opening of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport in 1974 changed the primary agricultural community in the regional center of commerce.