History

Building a Legacy
Legacy is built on land with a very interesting … legacy. Here's a look at what you might have seen if you had visited the Legacy site in times past.

1804
Two hundred years ago, the area now occupied by Legacy was blackland prairie, a virtual sea of native grasses and wildflowers. The area would have been visited by enormous herds of buffalo and nomadic bands of native Americans, mostly of the Caddo tribe.

1840
The area's fertile soil and an offer of land grants by the Peters Colony attracted the first white settlers in the early 1840s. Even with the opportunity to receive free land, the estimated population of the new Collin County was only 150 when it was separated from Fannin County in 1846, and named for Collin McKinney, one of the first settlers of the county and a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence.

1860
Cattle raised in the area were driven north to railheads in Kansas along the Shawnee Trail, which crossed western Collin County near the present Legacy site.

100 years ago
By 1904, the fertile, black soil of North Texas had made the Legacy site home to expansive cotton farms and cattle ranches.

1985
Frito-Lay and EDS become Legacy's first tenants.

Today
In 2006, Legacy is home to some of America's most prestigious corporations, but links to the past still remain obvious. As a commemoration to the historic Shawnee Trail of the 1880's, visitors can re-live those days by experiencing The Trails in Legacy. Starting at the northwest corner of Bishop Road and Legacy Drive, these bronze giants of the west, sculpted by artist Robert Summers, symbolize the rich heritage of the great state of Texas.