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Greenwood Memorial Park at White Settlement Road and Boland Street in Fort Worth, Texas, has been a perpetual care commercial cemetery since its dedication in 1909. The Mount Olivet Corporation, a non-profit organization was founded by the Bailey family of Fort Worth. The organization is overseen by a local elected board of trustees.
The cemetery was advertised daily in the Fort Worth Telegram newspaper throughout 1907 and 1908. In 1908, a new road connecting Fort Worth and then-suburb Riverside was built, making the cemetery far more accessible to local residents. [10] In 1909, a receiving vault with 32 crypts was constructed to facilitate burials and prevent grave-robbing.
When the church was completed in 1914, it sat 1,350 people. It was named after Richard Allen, a former slave and African-American minister who was the first bishop of the African-American Methodist Episcopal Church. Built at a cost of $20,000 it is the oldest and largest African Methodist Episcopal church in Fort Worth.
Fort Worth Report (FWR) is a nonprofit news media outlet covering local government, business, education and arts in the city of Fort Worth, Texas.The organization, founded by local business leaders and former Fort Worth Star-Telegram publisher Wes Turner, [1] announced its intentions in February 2021 and officially launched the newsroom in April 2021.
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Fort Worth Weekly was founded in 1996 as FW Weekly by Robert Camuto, [3] a former features editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and son of Nine West co-founder Vince Camuto. Robert Camuto sold The Weekly to national alt-weekly chain New Times Media in August, 2000. [ 4 ]