Crime Scene & Biohazard Cleanup Near Saddlebrook Estates Lancaster, TX

Lancaster is one of Dallas County's earliest settlements: Roderick Rawlins and his family, part of the Peters Colony migration, were the first to settle the area in 1844, and the town was founded in 1852 as a frontier post.

During the Civil War, a Confederate pistol factory operated in Lancaster, and relics from the factory are now displayed in the city's library.

On February 27, 1934, Clyde Barrow of Bonnie and Clyde fame robbed the R. P. Henry and Sons Bank near the southeast corner of Lancaster's town square.

On the night of April 25, 1994, a violent F4 tornado ripped through Lancaster, killing three people, injuring nearly 50, and damaging or destroying more than 250 homes and every building on the historic town square.

The White and Company Bank building, a town-square landmark dating to 1898 that was severely damaged in the 1994 tornado, was rebuilt and reopened in 1998 as the headquarters of the Lancaster Economic Development Corporation.

Lancaster grew slowly for a century — about 1,045 residents in 1900 — before suburbanization transformed it into a Dallas suburb about 15 miles south of downtown, with 41,275 residents at the 2020 census.

Census Bureau surveys count about 14,748 households in Lancaster, with about 68.1 percent of homes owner-occupied.

Lancaster is a majority-Black city: about 65.2 percent of its residents are Black or African American, and about 24.4 percent are Hispanic or Latino.

Lancaster belongs to the "Best Southwest" group of southern Dallas County suburbs, along with Cedar Hill, DeSoto, and Duncanville.

The Texas Legislature created the Lancaster Independent School District in March 1905; its Lancaster High School Tigers won the Texas Class 5A state basketball championship in 2015.