Fort Worth Stock Yards Entrance

Spanning Exchange Avenue, this gateway to the Fort Worth Stock Yards was completed in 1910. Constructed by the Topeka Bridge & Land Co. for the Fort Worth Stock Yards Co., it was a significant feat of concrete work for that ...

Site of the Fort Worth Medical College

The Forth Worth Medical College was established as the medical department of Fort Worth University in 1894 by a group of prominent area physicians. Among those in its small charter class was Frances Daisy Emery, the first woman medical school ...

Fort Worth's First Telephone Exchange

On this site in September 1881 Fort Worth's first telephone exchange was founded by Southwest Telegraph and Telephone Company. It initially served 40 customers and employed three local employees. One hundred years later telephone service is supplied by Southwestern Bell ...

Historic Fort Leavenworth

Oldest Army Post in Continuous Existence West of the Missouri River

Long before white men settled Kansas, traffic over the Santa Fe trail was so heavy that troops were detailed to protect it from the Indians. Fort Leavenworth, established in 1827 ...

First Christian Church of Fort Worth

City’s pioneer congregation, organized by the Rev. A.M. Dean, who with hymn book and revolver came in 1855 to the riotous six-year-old hamlet on the Trinity. He held services (at present Belknap and Houston Streets) in a log house built ...

Site of the First Masonic Hall in Fort Worth

After many years of debate, Fort Worth researchers identified this site in 1957 as the location of the city's first Masonic lodge. For more than twenty years, lodge members met in a two story hall at this location. The group ...

Fort Worth

"Where the West Begins"

Founded June 6, 1849, as frontier post of Co. F, 2nd Dragoons, 8th Dept., U.S. Army. The commander, Maj. Ripley Arnold, named camp for his former superior officer, Maj. Gen William Jenkins Worth. In 4 years of ...

Fort Worth Main Post Office Building

The Fort Worth Post Office was established in 1856 with pioneer settler Julian Field serving as Postmaster. The central offices were moved here in 1933 when this building was completed. Designed by the Fort Worth firm of Wyatt C. Hedrick, ...

Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery

This National Cemetery

has been listed in

The National Register

of

Historic Places

by the

United States Department of the Interior

1999

Marker is on Dixie / Pacemaker near Ironwood, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Fort Wadsworth /

Gateway National Recreation Area

Fort Wadsworth side:

Point, counterpoint. As one nation improves its offensive weapons, another revamps its defenses. It’s the story of military history, and Fort Wadsworth tells it as well as any place in America.

British soldiers built the first ...