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Our Lady of Victory Academy is located on 801 Shaw Street in Fort Worth, Texas. Ground for the school was broken on March 25, 1909. The cornerstone was laid later that year. The Fort Worth architectural firm Sanguinet and Staats designed the building. The five-story building was constructed at a cost of $200.000.
The high school movement is a term used in educational history literature to describe the era from 1910 to 1940 during which secondary schools as well as secondary school attendance sprouted across the United States. During the early part of the 20th century, American youth entered high schools at a rapid rate, mainly due to the building of new ...
In 1935, Central High School was renamed after longtime principal R.L. Paschal, who retired that year after 29 years of service. R.L. Paschal High School still exists in the Fort Worth Independent School District, but it relocated in 1955 to the corner of Berry Street and Forest Park Boulevard, near Texas Christian University.
The Masonic Home and School of Texas was a home for widows and orphans in what is now Fort Worth, Texas from 1889 to 2005. The first superintendent was Dr. Frank Rainey of Austin, Texas . [ 2 ] Starting in 1913, it had its own school system, the Masonic Home Independent School District .
In 1913, the former campus was used by Bryant School, a boys preparatory school. [5] The Fort Worth School District purchased the campus in 1915 and demolished the buildings the next year. [5] Fort Worth University's Cadet Hall (left), Science Hall (center), and University Hall (right) Fort Worth University School of Medicine, circa 1910
A rebuilding project was planned, but before reconstruction could begin, a group of enterprising Fort Worth businessmen offered the university $200,000 in rebuilding money ($6,614,210 in 2024) and a 50-acre (200,000 m 2) campus as an inducement to return to Fort Worth. The TCU campus in Fort Worth in 1910–11 consisted of four buildings: Clark ...
Blay was an assistant photo editor for the Star-Telegram in the early 2000s but now lives in Houston, where he is the chief curator for the Houston Museum of African American Culture.
1856 – Fort Worth became seat of Tarrant County. [4] 1873 Fort Worth incorporated. [5] Fort Worth Fire Department established. [6] 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]