 Sachse is located off Texas State Highway 78 and is approximately north of the President George Bush Turnpike (Texas State Highway 190) and Firewheel Town Center.Sachse was founded by William Sachse, a European immigrant from Herford, Prussia (included modern-day Germany, and parts of Poland and Eastern Europe), in 1845.Purchasing from Collin County, Sachse erected the first cotton mills and gins in the county.