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Fort Worth.(North Texas & the Panhandle)
- Article from:
- Texas Adventure Guide
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
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* History
The man for which the city is named--William Jenkins Worth--doesn't stir many historians' memories. He fought in the War of 1812 and the Florida Seminole Indian War and died inauspiciously of cholera in 1849, the same year that Camp Worth was established. Fort Worth (having moved from camp to fort status) was abandoned by the army, but by then settlers had come to join the post.
Area residents took over the empty buildings and barracks--a stable became the town's first hotel. The Civil War brought economic hardship, but cattle carried prosperity to the humble city, though it wasn't without a little competition.
The Chisholm Trail ran ...
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