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Amon Giles Carter Sr. (born Giles Amon Carter; December 11, 1879 – June 23, 1955) was the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a nationally known civic booster for Fort Worth, Texas. [1]
Amon G. Carter Stadium is an open-air football stadium on the campus of Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas. It is the home stadium of the TCU Horned Frogs football team. It is named after Amon G. Carter, a prominent Fort Worth businessman, newspaper publisher, and city booster. Amon G. Carter stadium has several popular nicknames ...
The Amon G. Carter Foundation is committing $10.75 million to support the new Texas A&M-Fort Worth campus under construction in downtown.. The foundation announced Tuesday that the gift includes ...
Greater Southwest International Airport (IATA: GSW, ICAO: KGSW), originally Amon Carter Field (ACF), was a commercial airport serving Fort Worth, Texas, from 1953 until 1974. Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) opened in 1974 a few miles north to replace Greater Southwest and Dallas Love Field as a single airport for the Dallas–Fort ...
We have both FDR and Amon Carter to thank for the Will Rogers Memorial Center, Farrington Field, park improvements around Lake Worth, the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, the Fort Worth Nature Center ...
The city rolled out the red carpet for them. Star-Telegram publisher Amon Carter, Fort Worth’s “Mr. Aviation,” hosted a gala victory party at the Fort Worth Club. The two celebrities weren ...
Alice Walton, shown with a cutting horse at her ranch near Fort Worth, is on the board of the Walton Family Foundation, which gave $20 million to the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth.
In 1927 the airport was renamed Meacham Field after former Fort Worth Mayor Henry C. Meacham. [2] Meacham was Fort Worth's major airport until April 1953 when major carriers moved to Amon Carter Field (later Greater Southwest International Airport). The January 1953 OAG shows 50 weekday airline departures from Meacham, 33 of which headed for ...