1910

April 26: Glidden Tour pacemaker automobile passes through Richardson while making a test run across North Texas.

June 21: Several automobiles, competing in the Glidden Tour, stop for a brief refreshment break at Richardsony. (Completed 1913.)

1910

n.d.: Wood frame building in which Harben's Drugstore is housed is replaced by a brick building. Frame building is moved next-door to Lot 16, Block 5, which Sam Harben repurchases from J. E. Day on March 6, 1911. (Dallas County, Texas Deed Book 510, p. 622.)

November 1: R. S. Rippy and W. C. Wallis are instantly killed when a wagon in which they are riding is hit by an express train at the level crossing near depot.

1912

n.d.: The Huguley Electric Gin is built.

n.d.: The Wilcox Light and Power Company begins building a transformer at Richardson and wiring the town for electricity. (Completed 1913.)

May 1: Democratic Presidential hopeful Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio delivers a speech in Richardson.

July 17: Texas Governor Oscar Branch Colquitt delivers a speech in Richardson.

September 10: Fire destroys the Huguley Brothers' steam powered gin. Afterward, they build an electric gin in its place.

1913

n.d.: The Wilcox Light and Power Company completes building a transformer at Richardson and wiring the town for electricity.

March 16: The Richardson Culture Club, later called the Blue Bonnet Club, is formed at the home of Mrs. Jennie Harben (Sam Harben's wife).

1914

n.d.: A new brick school is built to replace the older wooden school.

Spring: A thirty-piece Richardson Concert Band is formed.

November 19: A new red brick school, under construction since May, is accepted by school board to replace the older wooden school.

December 1: Classes are held for the first time in new red brick school building.

1916

n.d.: Building at 107 East Main Street is constructed as an automobile repair garage.

1917 thru 1919

n.d.: Richardson Concert Band and women's Bluebonnet Club are inactive during U.S. involvement in the First World War.

1918

n.d.: Pittman-Stults addition laid out in South Richardson.