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Camp Bowie, named in honor of the Texas patriot James Bowie, was a military training facility during World War II, and was the third camp in Texas to be so named.From 1940 to 1946, it grew to be one of the largest training centers in Texas.
Thomas Jackson Rodman (July 31, 1816 – June 7, 1871) was an American artillerist, inventor, ordnance specialist, and career United States Army officer. [1] He served as a Union Army officer during the American Civil War , in which he was noted for his many improvements and innovations concerning the artillery used by the Union forces.
The Rodman gun is any of a series of American Civil War–era columbiads designed by Union artillery officer Thomas Jackson Rodman [1] (1815–1871). The guns were designed to fire both shot and shell .
Sept. 19, 2007: Fort Worth Mayor Mike Moncrief drives a excavator to start the demolition of the gasoline station at the corner of Camp Bowie Boulevard and West Seventh Street that had been there ...
After this weekend, the next Original Fort Worth Gun Show is later this month on Oct. 29 and 30. Premier Gun Shows, LLC is hosting other shows in Mesquite on Oct. 15 and 16, and in Waxahachie on ...
For nearly a century, The Original Mexican Eats Cafe called this squat building at 4713 Camp Bowie Blvd. in west Fort Worth home. Last summer, the neighborhood fixture had to shutter its 7,500 ...
Spur 580, also called Camp Bowie West, is a 5.395-mile (8.682 km) state highway spur route in western Fort Worth, Texas. Spur 580 is a former segment of U.S. Highway 80 , and received its current designation when US 80 was decommissioned west of Mesquite, Texas .
Sept. 24, 1980: O.R. Gentry, butcher in the 1960s at Kincaid’s Grocery, 4901 Camp Bowie, created a hamburger from excess meat that became nationally famous.