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After the Mexican–American War. In January 1849, U.S. Army General William Jenkins Worth, a veteran of the Mexican–American War, proposed building ten forts to mark and protect the west Texas frontier, situated from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River. Worth died on 7 May 1849 from cholera. [4]
1870s. Governing body. State of Texas. Location within Texas. Hell's Half Acre was a precinct of Fort Worth, Texas designated as a red-light district beginning in the early to mid 1870s in the Old Wild West. [1] It came to be called the town's "Bloody Third ward " because of the violence and lawlessness in the area.
Sundance Square. Coordinates: 32°45′32″N 97°19′38″W. Sundance Square. Sundance Square is the name of a 35-block commercial, residential, entertainment and retail district in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Named after the Sundance Kid in western folklore, it is a popular place for nightlife and entertainment in Fort Worth and for tourists ...
I.M. Terrell High School at its previous location in 1921. I.M Terrell High School was a secondary school located in Fort Worth, Texas. The school opened in 1882 as the city's first black school, during the era of formal racial segregation in the United States. Though the high school closed in 1973, the building reopened as an elementary school ...
76002067 [1] Added to NRHP. June 29, 1976. The Fort Worth Stockyards is a historic district that is located in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, north of the central business district. A 98-acre (40 ha) portion encompassing much of the district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District in ...
History. Freed slaves began to locate to the Dallas area when slavery was abolished. [3] Freedmen's Cemetery was established in 1861. [4] The Hamilton Park neighborhood was one of the first suburbs in Texas built for African Americans in 1953. [5] In the mid-1800s, lynchings of African Americans took place in Dealey Plaza.
Como, Fort Worth, Texas. Coordinates: 32.7232°N 97.4038°W. Postcard of Lake Como in Arlington Heights, 1908. The Como neighborhood is a historically African-American neighborhood located on the west side of Fort Worth, Texas. Como was named after Como, Italy. One of its residents was a neighborhood activist Viola Pitts.
United States. State (s) Texas. Ronald Keith Allridge (September 27, 1960 – June 8, 1995) [1] and James Vernon Allridge III (November 14, 1962 – August 26, 2004) [2] were American brothers and serial killers who killed three people and committed numerous armed robberies in Fort Worth, Texas, during a crime spree in early 1985.