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The Fort Worth Gazette: An Old Fort Worth Letterhead With a Great Map & Bankhead Highway History
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The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth and Texas history and occasional comment. Friday, September 6, 2013. An Old Fort Worth Letterhead With a Great Map and Bankhead Highway History. In the process, I did a little historical review on Mr. Lewis and found that he was an interesting, well known person. 02-09-1909 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The Lewis family was socially prominent and as the clip above shows, he sometimes acted as an ambassador for the city when prominent people visited. Click On the Images.
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The Fort Worth Gazette: 1903: Charles Swartz.. Views of Fort Worth
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The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth and Texas history and occasional comment. Saturday, April 5, 2014. 1903: Charles Swartz. Views of Fort Worth. While working on another project, I recently came across this little 20 page album published in 1903 by the Albertype Co. that features the work of Charles (C.L.) Swartz, one of the famous brothers. Offering a different look at early Fort Worth, I thought a close look at a few of the pages might be interesting. Click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge.
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The Fort Worth Gazette: December 2012
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The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth and Texas history and occasional comment. Saturday, December 1, 2012. Texas Cattle Drives BEFORE The Chisholm Trail. It's interesting to note that the cattle shown are not what we think of as traditional Longhorns. Pictures of the period quite often show cattle of this type. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Click On the Images. 1000 Lost Antique Maps of Texas on DVDROM. Great Texas Cattle Trails Map. Great Lonesome Dove Cattle Trails Map. The Great Lonesome Dove Trails Map.
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The Fort Worth Gazette: The Fabled Dallas Pike: Where Is It Now? This Post Card Has a Story..
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The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth and Texas history and occasional comment. Sunday, August 18, 2013. The Fabled Dallas Pike: Where Is It Now? This Post Card Has a Story. A little Fort Worth Bankhead Highway/Broadway of America/US-80 Tourist Court nostalgia:. Harrow Court click image to enlarge. Court description click image to enlarge. The paragraph on the back tells use more about it. Air cooled with ventilated heat and operated by Mr. and Mrs. L.E. Stubbs. 5800 E. Lancaster click image to enlarge.
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The Fort Worth Gazette: January 2013
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The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth and Texas history and occasional comment. Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Where Was "Stop 6" On The Fort Worth - Dallas Interurban? Small mysteries. This one has bugged me for several years. Click to zoom in. This clip from the great 1919-1920 Fort Worth map by C.H. Rogers showed the named stops clear out to Stop Virginia Place. Past Ayers Street at Mount View around the 3700 block. But the stops weren't numbered and I thought that Stop 6 was further east from there. So it...
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The Fort Worth Gazette: September 2013
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The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth and Texas history and occasional comment. Friday, September 6, 2013. An Old Fort Worth Letterhead With a Great Map and Bankhead Highway History. In the process, I did a little historical review on Mr. Lewis and found that he was an interesting, well known person. 02-09-1909 Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The Lewis family was socially prominent and as the clip above shows, he sometimes acted as an ambassador for the city when prominent people visited. Click On the Images.
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The Fort Worth Gazette: Lost 1880's History: Fort Worth's Little Known Union Railroad Depot
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The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth and Texas history and occasional comment. Thursday, July 10, 2014. Lost 1880's History: Fort Worth's Little Known Union Railroad Depot. There was a 2nd T&P station that is often overlooked, or if it is remembered, the location is generally incorrect. It too was on the T&P Reservation but in a different location. 1885 Map of Union Depot Area click image to enlarge. Unfortunately, this location had some problems. It was necessary for travelers moving to and from the c...
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The Fort Worth Gazette: Found: The Lost 1889 Cotton Belt Rail Yards On Panther Island!
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The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth and Texas history and occasional comment. Sunday, September 21, 2014. Found: The Lost 1889 Cotton Belt Rail Yards On Panther Island! 1889 W. B. King Fort Worth Map-Cotton Belt Yards click to enlarge image. 1922 Cotton Belt Yard House-Left Center- click image to enlarge. USGS Flood Plain Map-1915 click to enlarge image. 1932 T&P Switching Map click image to enlarge. Railroad Archeology and Preservation! Cotton Belt Turntable Pit Artifact - 2014- click image to enlarge.
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The Fort Worth Gazette: Fort Worth: Sky High On Airships ~ The Helium Center Of The US Dirigible Fleet
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The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth and Texas history and occasional comment. Saturday, February 15, 2014. Fort Worth: Sky High On Airships The Helium Center Of The US Dirigible Fleet. 1919-1920 Greater Fort Worth Map Clip click image to enlarge. Click image to enlarge. In December of 1922 the U.S. Navy inflated their airship C-7 with Fort Worth helium for the first time and did a demonstration flight over Washington D.C (See above). It was a huge success and a proof of performance. It...In addition to th...
