Where is cowtown tx

Niles, whose primary business was meatpacking. Armour and Swift held a coin toss to decide who would get which tract of land. Armour won the toss and chose the northern site; construction began in They even sold some of the gravel to Armour. That same year, construction started on the pens, the barns, and the new Livestock Exchange Building, which housed the many livestock commission companies, telegraph offices, railroad offices and other support businesses.

The success of the Stockyards meant the area needed an indoor show facility. The Coliseum became the home of the first indoor rodeo.

Streets changed from dust trails to beautiful concrete paths to make way for the booming city. In , Fort Worth had eight operating refineries with four more being built for the nearby East Texas oil boom. While business grew, so did architecture and culture. Dallas had been chosen as the official site for the Texas Centennial Celebration.

It was surrounded by a moat with projecting fountains circling the stage to create the stage curtain. The theatre produced Broadway plays, western shows, and musicals until budgets were cut and the building was later dismantled.

The interior was renovated to a proscenium stage configuration in He realized that fighting between settlers and frontier tribes would continue and devised a system of protecting the Texas frontier. This plan materialized in a string of forts acting as a barrier between tribal lands and the farms and towns settlers of Central and North Texas. Worth contracted the disease and died at the age of Worth was later buried in a tomb at what is now Worth Square in New York City, where a street is also named for him.

Several other cities and counties were later named for him. Lake Worth, a small Texas suburb nestled next to Fort Worth, is also named for the famed general and is a thriving community of around 5, residents.

Ken Bridges is a Texas native, writer and history professor. He can be reached at drkenbridges gmail. And after the mile journey home after delivery, Fort Worth welcomed them with the first chance to rest and spend their earnings. Once the railroad came along, Fort Worth went on to become one of the top cattle markets in the nation.

Millions of head of cattle were sold and processed through the meatpacking plants, Armour and Swift, through From cattle drive to auction, there were always plenty of cattle and cowboys in Fort Worth, hence the name.