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Grapevine is the oldest settlement in Tarrant County, founded in 1844 — a year before Texas even became a U.S. state.

In October 1843, Sam Houston and fellow Republic of Texas commissioners camped at Grape Vine Springs to meet with leaders of ten Native nations, a meeting that culminated in the Treaty of Bird's Fort.

The town was named 'Grape Vine' in 1854 for the wild mustang grapes that grew across the Grape Vine Prairie, and it was incorporated as Grape Vine on February 12, 1907.

The 2020 census counted 50,631 people in Grapevine, up from 46,334 in 2010.

Grapevine Lake, created when the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed its dam in 1952, draws more than a million visitors a year for boating, fishing, and lakeside parks.

The Texas State Senate designated Grapevine the official Christmas Capital of Texas in 2009; the city stages more than 1,400 holiday events over about 40 days and welcomes more than two million visitors a year.

Grapevine's Historic Main Street, lined with winery tasting rooms, boutiques, and the Palace Theatre, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and was voted one of the most charming Main Streets in America by USA Today readers.

Tourism drives Grapevine's economy: the Gaylord Texan Resort and Great Wolf Lodge are two of the largest hotels in the entire Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, and the Grapevine Vintage Railroad carries visitors from Main Street to the Fort Worth Stockyards.

The arrival of Dallas Fort Worth International Airport next door in the 1970s transformed Grapevine from a small farming town into a convention and tourism hub between Dallas and Fort Worth.

People who live in Grapevine call themselves 'Grapevinians,' and the city maintains four sister cities: Parras de la Fuente in Mexico, Krems in Austria, West Lothian in Scotland, and Barossa in Australia.