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Fort Worth is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Tarrant County, covering nearly 350 square miles (910 km 2) into Denton, Johnson, Parker, and Wise counties. . According to the 2024 United States census estimate, Fort Worth's population was 996,756 making it the fifth-most populous city in the state and the 12th-most populous in the United St
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]
Downtown Fort Worth is the central business district of the city, and is home to many commercial office buildings, including four office towers over 450 feet tall. [5] Radio Shack has its headquarters in Downtown Fort Worth. [6] In 2001 Radio Shack bought the former Ripley Arnold public housing complex in Downtown Fort Worth for $20 million.
1874 – Dallas -Fort Worth telegraph began operating. [7] 1876 – Texas and Pacific Railway began operating. [7] 1882 – Public school established. [4] 1883 – First National Bank of Fort Worth established. [8] 1888 – Fort Worth Cats baseball team formed.
The Fort Worth Water Gardens, built in 1974, is located on the south end of downtown Fort Worth between Houston and Commerce Streets next to the Fort Worth Convention Center. The 4.3-acre (1.7 hectare) Water Gardens were designed by noted New York architects Philip Johnson and John Burgee and were dedicated to the City of Fort Worth by the Amon ...
Six Points lies west of Downtown Fort Worth, within an area of the city known as the Cultural District. It is the apex of where University Drive, Camp Bowie Boulevard, Arch Adams (recently renamed Van Cliburn Way), 7th Street, Lancaster, and Montgomery Street merge to form the Six Points intersection and neighborhood.
2 February 1982 – 21 May 1991. Fort Worth City Councilman from 1979 to 1982. Retired to serve as an advisor to the chancellor of Texas Christian University. Served longest term in Fort Worth mayoral history. 41st. Norvell Kay Granger. Republican. 21 May 1991 – 19 December 1995. First female mayor of Fort Worth.
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (the Carter) is located in Fort Worth, Texas, in the city's cultural district. The museum's permanent collection features paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by leading artists working in the United States and its North American territories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.