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Today’s drives typically last about five minutes and happen twice daily at 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Excessive heat in North Texas limit the drives to just the 11:30 a.m. time during the summer months.
Daily cattle drives in the Stockyards are brief, but there’s a whole day’s worth of work that goes into bringing this piece of Fort Worth history to life.
After the arrival of the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1876, various business people in the town began erecting stock yards in an effort to become a greater part of the cattle industry. In 1883, the Fort Worth Stockyards were officially incorporated. [2] Local ranchers wished to encourage interest in their cattle.
The draft will cap off a day of festivities in the Stockyards, starting with the 11:30 a.m. cattle drive and ending with a baseball themed drone show, said Jason Sands, director of the Fort Worth ...
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 1976. [ 1 ]
The company razed the complex and had a 900,000 square feet (84,000 m 2) corporate headquarters campus built after the City of Fort Worth approved a 30-year economic agreement to ensure that the company stayed in Fort Worth. The company sold the building and, as of 2009, had two years left of a rent-free lease in the building.
People line up to watch the morning cattle drive at the Stockyards Station in Fort Worth on Friday, Oct. 14, 2022. Vision for the Stockyards Cavileer said the company has been working with the ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.3 square miles (18.8 km 2), of which 0.01 square miles (0.03 km 2), or 0.18%, are water. [4] The city is bordered to the north and east by Fort Worth and to the south by Burleson. The center of Crowley is at the crossroads of Farm to Market Roads 1187 and 731.