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Fort Worth: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and includes another 76: Oil & Gas Building: Oil & Gas Building: January 25, 2024 : 309 W. 7th Street: Fort Worth: 77: Old Town Historic District: Old Town Historic District
Butler Place Historic District is a 42-acre area east of the central business district of Fort Worth, Texas. From about 1940-2020, it was a public housing development with 412 units. The site is now to be dedicated to a new purpose, perhaps a museum focused on African Americans in Fort Worth's history. [2] [3]
The Fort Worth Cultural District [8] lies across the river to the west of Downtown Fort Worth and is renowned for its high concentration of notable museums such as the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth Museum of Science and History, Kimbell Art Museum, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, and National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame.
Baptisms were in Rockwood Park, at a horse-shoe bend in the Trinity River, with the first conversion in 1915 for Juanita May James, a mother and homemaker. ... the 1,800-square-foot chapel had a ...
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.
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 .
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.
1964 – Fort Worth Civil Liberties Union formed. [24] 1968 – Fort Worth Museum of Science and History active. 1969 Alleged Lake Worth Monster spotted. Historic Fort Worth nonprofit established. [25] 1970 – Population: 393,476. [15] 1972 – Kimbell Art Museum opened. [7] 1973 Dallas/Fort Worth Airport began operating. [7] Fort Worth ...