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History. 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. In 1940, the war situation in Europe caused the United States Congress to determine that the ...
Carswell Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) base, located northwest of Fort Worth, Texas. For most of its operational lifetime, the base's mission was to train and support heavy strategic bombing groups and wings. Carswell was a major Strategic Air Command (SAC) base during the Cold War. It was the headquarters of several ...
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.
Even when the code talker program was declassified in 1968, national recognition of code talkers was slow. It wasn’t until 2000 that code talkers were honored by the U.S. Congress and awarded ...
On July 22, 1881, Bowie was incorporated as a town in Montague County, United States. (A separate Bowie County includes Texarkana in northeastern Texas.) The town began to expand with the arrival of the Fort Worth and Denver Railway in 1882. [5] In 1884, four men robbed the First National Bank of Bowie and allegedly left with over $10,000 in ...
The Village at Camp Bowie location was recently home to the short-lived Blue Butterfly Cafe, a Tennessee company. Before that, it was home to the first Fort Worth location of Olivella’s Pizza ...
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. It is also a part of the older Bankhead Highway, which Spur 580 was once known as ...
A two-screen movie theater is being developed on Camp Bowie Boulevard, according to city records. Plans for a 9,683-square-foot movie theater at 6905 Camp Bowie Blvd. were approved by Fort Worth ...