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Tarrant County Sheriff’s Deputy Brent Brown, 35, was shot twice by a man who pulled a gun at a Fort Worth credit union on Nov. 27, 2023, authorities said. Brown is recovering at JPS Hospital.
Lake Worth, a 2.5-square-mile city incorporated in 1949 and originally called Lake Worth Village, lies to the east of the lake that it’s named after. The Tarrant County suburb houses a small ...
Stock yards, north Fort Worth, Texas (postcard, c. 1900s) The arrival of railroads in 1876 made the area a very important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for business on January 19, 1890, covering 206 acres. On February 7, the Fort Worth Dressed Meat and Packing Company was founded.
The Tower (formerly Block 82 Tower and Bank One Tower) is a 35-story building located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas bound by Taylor Street, Throckmorton Street, West 4th Street, and West 5th Street. At 488-feet (149 m), it is the fourth tallest building in Fort Worth. When it was completed in 1974, it was the tallest building in Fort Worth ...
Miss Texas Pageant (beauty contest) relocated to city. 1964 – Fort Worth Civil Liberties Union formed. 1968 – Fort Worth Museum of Science and History active. 1969 Alleged Lake Worth Monster spotted. Historic Fort Worth nonprofit established. 1970 – Population: 393,476. 1972 – Kimbell Art Museum opened. 1973
The museum was originally created to preserve and display the last Convair B-36 built. Of 386 B-36s built from 1945 to 1954, only four intact examples survive. B-36-J-III 52-2827 City of Fort Worth was built in Fort Worth, Texas in 1954. The aircraft was accepted by the Air Force on August 14, 1954 and was retired on 12, February 1959.
The library board appealed to the Public Works Administration ( PWA) in 1933 for funds with $400,000 in subsidies finally arrived in Fort Worth in 1937. A three-story, triangular PWA Moderne structure designed by Joseph R. Pelich was built over the spot of the old neoclassical Carnegie library and opened in 1938. Mrs.
FORT WORTH, Texas - The City of Fort Worth will make a proclamation on Tuesday night, declaring an official city bird.. The Eastern Bluebird will be named as Fort Worth's city bird. Fort Worth ISD ...