Welcome to Fort Worthy History! We’ve had so much fun sharing Fort Worth’s past with so many people on our Instagram page that it’s time to hitch up to a post with a webpage. At Fort Worth History we share through our research of archived photographs, archived newspapers, books, oral history, and legends. We invite you to come along with us. Fort Worth is WHERE THE WEST BEGINS and the fun never ends!

The Beginnings: June 6, 1849, Major Ripley Arnold with the 42nd US Army Dragoons, Middleton Tate Johnson, and local settler, Press Farmer, arrive on a spot on the bluffs above the confluence of the Clear and West forks of the Trinity River. They set up a camp to build a fort to protect the area from Indigenous raids. That fort would be named in honor of Major Arnold’s commanding officer, General William Worth, a war hero, who had just died a month earlier in San Antonio. That fort would be the beginning of the great city of Fort Worth.

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