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#51 AndyN

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Posted 08 February 2007 - 08:33 AM

On this day in 1887, "Longhair Jim" Courtright, former town marshall of Fort Worth, was killed in a gunfight with Luke Short.

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Posted 19 July 2007 - 08:17 AM

July 19, 1876

T&P finally reaches Fort Worth, touching off celebration.

On this day in 1876, the Texas and Pacific Railway finally completed its line into Fort Worth.

More info on extension of the rails.



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Posted 20 July 2007 - 01:28 PM

On this day in 1911 a heated election was held to decide on whether Fort Worth would be wet or dry. This was forced on the ballot after J. Frank Norris, the pastor at the First Baptist Church crusaded for the issue to be decided by the voters. The 'wets' win by 6,000 votes. However, the days of prohibition were just right around the corner.

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Posted 08 July 2008 - 04:11 AM

On this day in 1860, Dallas Burns

On this day in 1860, a series of mysterious fires broke out in North Texas, devastating several communities and leading to the Texas slave panic of 1860. The most serious fire destroyed most of the downtown section of the small town of Dallas. In addition, about half of the town square in Denton burned, and fire razed a store in Pilot Point. At first, the leaders of the affected communities attributed the fires to a combination of the exceedingly hot summer (it was reportedly as hot as 110 degrees in Dallas on the afternoon of the fire) and the introduction into the stores of the new and volatile phosphorous matches. Indeed, subsequent experience with "prairie matches" in Denton satisfied the citizens of that town that spontaneous combustion was the probable cause of the fire there. In Dallas, however, certain white leaders detected a more sinister origin to the area's fires.Charles R. Pryor of the Dallas Herald blamed the assault on an abolitionist plot "to devastate, with fire and assassination, the whole of Northern Texas...." By the end of July, communities and counties throughout North and East Texas had established vigilance committees to root out and punish the alleged conspirators. By the time the panic subsided in September, between thirty and 100 blacks and whites had been killed by the vigilance committees. Often called "the Texas Troubles" by the press, the Texas panic of 1860 helped prepare Texans and other Southerners to leave the Union.


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Posted 14 April 2009 - 09:17 AM

Coahuila governor discovers and names Guadalupe River

On this day in 1689, Alonso De León, Spanish governor of Coahuila, discovered and named the Guadalupe River at the approximate future site of Victoria, while leading his fourth and final expedition to find and destroy the French settlement at Fort St. Louis.

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(De Leon was the inspiration for the name of the condo on Samuels Ave.)
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Posted 29 May 2009 - 09:04 AM

On this day in 1889, the Texas Spring Palace opened in Fort Worth.
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