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Where Is Chaucer Estates Located?
Chaucer Estates is located at the southeast corner of Morris Road and Valley Ridge Boulevard in Flower Mound, Texas. Our zip code is 75028.
Located in Southern Denton County, one the fastest growing counties in Texas, Flower Mound is just 28 miles northwest of Dallas, 25 miles northeast of Fort Worth and three miles north of the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, making it accessible to anywhere in the world. Flower Mound encompasses 44 square miles in the heart of the Metroplex and is approximately 45% developed.
Flower Mound’s unique location between two large lakes, Lake Grapevine on the southern border of Flower Mound and Lake Lewisville just minutes to the north. Flower Mound is also home to one of the largest natural hardwood forests in the United States, The Cross Timbers Region, offers a tremendous diversity of lifestyles in which to live, work, and play.
History Of Chaucer Estates
The land occupied by Chaucer Estates, was once the site of a cattle field. E-Systems purchased it as an investment for its retirement fund. Alpine Development began the developing process in late 1992. Phase 1 started with the first home being completed by Heatherwood Homes in May 1993. That year Heatherwood built 5 homes including the first model in the neighborhood which was at 5500 Frost Lane. At this time, plans were made for the addition of the amenity package which include the pool and two tennis courts. They were completed in October of 1994. Hampton Homes and then Pierce Homes joined. All three builders having sold their earlier models in the development, built their models together on the western end of Longfellow. The neighborhood continued to grow slowly. Hampton and Pierce dropped out and in 1996 Willowbrook began building their homes. Phase 2 was opened up in 1995 but Grand Homes began building here in 1997. As of today all homes have been built and are occupied. We have 4 homes in the neighborhood built by independent contractors.
This neighborhood is governed by a Homeowners Association (HOA). Annual dues are
About The Homeowners Association
used to cover maintenance and repairs on all common areas which include the pool, tennis courts, the landscaped areas on our wrought iron western boundary, our bricked northern boundary and the oil pipeline easement which runs across all the streets in a diagonal path in phase 2. In January of 1999, the HOA was turned over to the neighborhood’s first board of directors elected at the October 1998 HOA meeting.
The HOA has covenants (rules) and design standards which are meant to maintain the quality of our neighborhood and maintain property values. Some of these rules control how our neighborhood looks and thus any improvements made to your lot are under this jurisdiction. These improvements include such items as: fences, sheds, swimming pools, and satellite dishes. Plans need to be submitted for approval from the HOA. Please call or write to our property manager before starting your project!!
About The Area
Our utilities are CoServ (electric), Atmos Energy, Verizon telephone and Comcast Cable. We have city water and sewer from Flower Mound and our garbage and recyclable are collected on Tuesday mornings by BFI. Big garbage pick up on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month.
Our children attend 3 schools in Flower Mound. Prairie Trail Elementary which is just down the road on Kirkpatrick, Lamar Middle School on Timbercreek Rd and Marcus High School across Morriss Rd.
About The Town Of Flower Mound
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FLOWER MOUND, TEXAS. Flower Mound, south of Denton and northwest of Dallas in south central Denton County, is a residential suburban community of 20,000 acres on the shore of Grapevine Lake. It was established soon after Sam Houston settled a tribal dispute in 1844 and Indian raids in the area ceased. Permanent settlers moved in, attracted by the quality of the soil, which was suitable for raising cotton, corn, and wheat. The Peters colony named the town for a fifty-foot-high mound covered with Indian paintbrush; the mound was once used by Indians as a holy place. Unlike many pioneer settlements in Denton County that were bypassed by the railroads in the late nineteenth century or unable to survive the Great Depression, Flower Mound maintained a steady population throughout the first four decades of the twentieth century and became a substantial farming and cattle-raising community.
In the mid-1950s the town began to grow. The increase in the number of residents was a result of the construction by the United States Corps of Engineers of Grapevine Lake, which was completed on July 2, 1953. The lake stimulated the economy of the community and attracted workers who preferred to live outside the central Dallas area. Flower Mound was incorporated on February 27, 1961. The town had an estimated population of 275 in 1966 and 664 in 1968.
Flower Mound was chosen one of thirteen communities to be affected by the 1968 New Communities Act (Housing and Urban Development Title IV) as the site of a new planned community that would offer model social and environmental conditions to residents. The act, amended in 1970, provided $18 million of a total $294 million in federal loan guarantees for new towns, for developers Raymond D. Nasher, former UN General Assembly delegate, and Edward S. Marcus, chairman of Neiman-Marcus, to set up four village centers or neighborhoods, each with schools, parks, and shopping and recreational facilities, on 6,156 acres on the north shore of Grapevine Lake. Flower Mound New Town, designed as a satellite town to limit the growing urban sprawl of Dallas and Fort Worth, was expected to house some 60,000 to 70,000 persons comprising a mixture of racial and income groups, and to provide such services as cable television, rapid transit to the new Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, and environmental protection for the area. Residents of the original town of Flower Mound, however, fought tax increases proposed to accommodate the new development. The dispute resulted in replacement of the city’s five aldermen with two city commissioners.
The population of Flower Mound was 1,685 in 1970. Construction began on the new town in 1972, but federal red tape, the 1973-75 economic recession, slow land sales, changing federal policy, and the relative isolation of the site brought failure of the project, despite an additional HUD grant of $170,000. In the spring of 1974 Nasher sold out to Marcus, who in turn sold his half interest to Tinnie Mercantile Company, owned by Robert Anderson, chairman of Atlantic-Richfield. By September 1976, with other new towns failing and Flower Mound experiencing financial difficulty, HUD foreclosed on its model Texas experiment in public-private cooperation. The development, which by then numbered 300 persons and 100 homes, subsequently attracted builders and was renamed Timber Creek Community. In 1980 the town’s population was 4,402. In 1990 Flower Mound reported a population of 15,527.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: C. A. Bridges, History of Denton, Texas, from Its Beginning to 1960 (Waco: Texian Press, 1978). Denton Record-Chronicle, February 28, 1961. Scott W. Mellon, “The Only New Town That Worked,” Muse Air Monthly, June 1985. Rodney J. Walter, The Economic History of Denton County, Texas, 1900-1950 (M.A. thesis, North Texas State University, 1969). By David Minor
About The Flower Mound
There are almost as many legends, interpretations, and stories, often contradictory, concerning The Mound as there are bluebonnets in Texas.
The very few unchallenged facts are that The Town of Flower Mound derived its name from it and that it is 650 feet above sea level, and rises 50 feet above the surrounding countryside. Texas’ eminent historian, the late A.C. Greene, believes the name, Flower Mound, was given to the rise in the 1840s because of an unusual amount of wild flowers that grew on it. This area was part of the great American Black Land Prairie that ran from Canada to the Rio Grande and from the Rockies to the Mississippi. Our immediate area, of which only 1,000 acres remain out of the original 20 million, was part of the Tall Grass Prairie.
Because the early pioneer settlers used The Mound as a haymeadow and never plowed, the wild flowers were conspicuously abundant in wet springs. However, wildflowers and native prairie grasses flourish throughout the year on The Mound. The Mound Foundation has identified more than 175 species, a hand full of which are included on this website.
The Mound is now referred to as The Flower Mound.
