Tarrant County, Texas Within a year of the Battle of Stone Houses, other Ranger companies entered the Trinity Valley. Captains Sloan and Journey brought their Fannin County Rangers in the spring of 1838. In the fall, General Jonathan Dyer, commander...
Tarrant County, Texas Sloan-Journey Expedition of 1838 Historical Marker Marker Title: Sloan-Journey Expedition of 1838 Address: Mosier Valley Rd. & FM 157 City: Arlington Year Marker Erected: 1984 Marker Location: Mosier Valley Rd. at...
Tarrant County, Texas Highway 377 North passes through the "Cowboy Town" of Cresson returning to Fort Worth, "Where the West Begins." There is certainly a pioneer tradition in the residents of this town. During the long delay in...
Tarrant County, Texas D/FW airport is a few miles north of Bird's Fort, where the first settlement was attempted in 1841. The northwestern frontier had witnessed four years of bloody warfare and the little stockade gave a sense of security to the...
Tarrant County, Texas The U.S. Army soldiers who came to build the fort traveled up the Trinity on the steamboat "Jack Hays" named after San Antonio hero and Ranger Captain John Coffey Hays. Sam Houston scheduled a treaty signing at Bird's...
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