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The 2009 mode share for Fort Worth (city) commuters are 11.7% for carpooling, 1.5% for transit, 1.2% for walking, and .1% for cycling. In 2015, the American Community Survey estimated modal shares for Fort Worth (city) commuters of 82% for driving alone, 12% for carpooling, .8% for riding transit, 1.8% for walking, and .3% for cycling.
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]
Battles/wars. World War II, Cold War. Carswell Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base, located northwest of Fort Worth, Texas. For most of its operational lifetime, the base's mission was to train and support heavy strategic bombing groups and wings. Carswell was a major Strategic Air Command (SAC) base during the Cold War.
Fort Worth police respond to a 911 call reporting that an officer was shot Monday afternoon, Nov. 27, 2023 at the Fort Worth Community Credit Union on Brentwood Stair Road.
Fort Worth solicited proposals to redevelop the 70-year-old public art building in late 2023 after a city task force recommended updating it to become a “world class cultural hub.”
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.
April 19, 2024 at 3:17 PM. Getty Images. A Dallas jury awarded over $1 million in lost wages and benefits late Thursday to Ronald Burke, a former assistant information services director for the ...
A rebuilding project was planned, but before reconstruction could begin, a group of enterprising Fort Worth businessmen offered the university $200,000 in rebuilding money ($5,114,505.00 in 2018 currency) and a 50-acre (200,000 m 2) campus as an inducement to return to Fort Worth. This move brought TCU home to the source of its institutional ...