Everything Everman is known for
Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Everman.
In 1917, Everman was selected as one of three sites to serve as a flight-training school for the Canadian Royal Flying Corps and the United States Signal Corps, Aviation Section. Barron Field, located just outside the city, stimulated the local economy and increased population growth.
The arrival of the International-Great Northern Railroad in 1902 was a pivotal moment for Everman, as it provided convenient transportation and a means to ship freight to Houston and Fort Worth. This led to the development of Everman Village and its eventual growth into a city.
By the mid-1940s Fort Worth was booming and pushing its city limits outward in every direction, and the little settlement on its southern edge could see what was coming. Everman had been here since 1904, when the International-Great Northern Railroad came through and the place took the name of a railroad engineer, John W. Everman. Postal service followed in 1905, its own independent school district in 1906, and Barron Field, an Army flight training strip, in 1917. What Everman did not have was a city government — and in Texas, an unincorporated community is a community waiting to be absorbed. So in 1945, Everman incorporated. It did not out-vote Fort Worth; it simply got there first, the same play Benbrook and Westover Hills ran on their own stretches of the county line. That decision is the reason you're driving through the City of Everman today, and not just a southern Fort Worth neighborhood.
Miller Brewing Co. opened its Fort Worth plant in September 1969 at 7001 South Freeway; 155 acres, largest brewery in Texas. Mrs. Baird's Bakery sits 3 blocks south at 7301 South Freeway. Bread and beer share Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast — historically bakers bought yeast foam (barm) from brewers. Munich baker-brewer dispute of 1481 is one of the earliest written records of the relationship.
Townes Van Zandt grew up in the Dido area of Tarrant County and became one of the most revered songwriters in American country and folk music.
Opened 1966 by Carling Brewing, acquired by Miller in 1969. One of the largest single-site breweries in North America, producing roughly 10 million barrels annually.
One of three World War I fight training centers in the Ft. Worth area, Taliaferro Field No. 2 was built on this site in Nov. 1917. First used by Canadian cadets, it was occupied in April 1918 by American military units. In May, the facility was renamed Barron Field for Cadet Robert J. Barron, who was killed at another flying school. Covering over 600 acres, the camp housed as many as 150 officers and 900 enlisted men. Barron Field sent six Air Squadrons to France before the war ended, Nov. 11, 1918. The training facility closed in 1921, and today only the munitions building remains. (1976)
One of the oldest burial grounds in Tarrant County; named for its location and used for many years before record-keeping began. In 1883 landowner J.W. Chapman deeded the property to Forest Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church. ("Cumberland" was later dropped from the name.) Among the many interments of pioneers were Press and Jane Farmer, who lived at site of Fort Worth before the U.S. Army established the Fort in 1849. The cemetery is full although few headstones are visible, as most graves were unmarked or marked with field stones that have since disappeared. (1974)
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Daily cattle drives down the street. Honky-tonks and rodeos in the old West.
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You're driving through Everman, a community that owes its early growth to a World War I flight school. Right here, in 1917, Barron Field was established, serving as a crucial training ground for both Canadian and…
In 1917, Everman was selected as one of three sites to serve as a flight-training school for the Canadian Royal Flying Corps and the United States Signal Corps, Aviation Section. Barron Field, located just outside the…
By the mid-1940s Fort Worth was booming and pushing its city limits outward in every direction, and the little settlement on its southern edge could see what was coming. Everman had been here since 1904, when the…
You're driving past what's now Everman Cemetery, but it started as the Morris Graveyard. Back in 1882, R.E. Morris buried his wife, Rosa, on their family farm. It was the first interment here. The town itself was first…
One of three World War I fight training centers in the Ft. Worth area, Taliaferro Field No. 2 was built on this site in Nov. 1917. First used by Canadian cadets, it was occupied in April 1918 by American military units.…
Miller Brewing Co. opened its Fort Worth plant in September 1969 at 7001 South Freeway; 155 acres, largest brewery in Texas. Mrs. Baird's Bakery sits 3 blocks south at 7301 South Freeway. Bread and beer share…
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You're driving past the Handley Cemetery, originally serving the pioneer settlers of the Handley Community. This area developed after the Texas and Pacific Railroad arrived in 1876. The earliest marked grave is Jane E.…
In Fort Worth's Hospital District, a web of tunnels once linked the buildings where the city's sick and injured were treated. Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital, formerly Harris Hospital, was named for surgeon Dr.…
You're driving past the former home of George B. Monnig, a Fort Worth merchant. He and his wife Lura bought this land back in 1905 and built a house. But just four years later, a neighborhood fire wiped it out.…
You're driving through Fort Worth, passing the site of a church with roots stretching back to 1882. It started as a small gathering of twelve German-speaking families, meeting in a home. Their first sanctuary was built…
Step inside Thistle Hill, a grand mansion that hosted lavish parties and witnessed the changing fortunes of Fort Worth's elite. Built in 1903, Thistle Hill was home to Electra Waggoner, a prominent figure in Fort Worth…
You're driving through Johnson County, the heart of Texas Baptist country. Right here, Henry Carty Renfro, a prominent minister, once preached. He even became pastor of the Independence Baptist Church, one of the most…
You're driving through Fort Worth, and right here is the sanctuary of the Gustavus Adolphus Church. Organized in 1905, this church served the Swedish settlers of the city. Their congregation, later known as Grace…
You're driving past the former stomping grounds of William Alfred Sanderson. Born in England in 1819, Sanderson arrived in Texas in 1841, eventually settling in Tarrant County in 1847. He became a successful farmer and…
You're cruising through Fort Worth, and right here is the story of Beth-El Congregation. It started way back in 1879 with a Sabbath School and services held in people's homes. By 1902, enough folks had gathered to…
You're driving past Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth, a congregation that started with just nine people back on New Year's Eve, 1882. They first met in a rented hall, then built a frame church, and later a brick…
You're cruising through Fort Worth's Mistletoe Heights neighborhood, an area that was really taking off around 1920 for its merchants and professionals. Look for this striking Spanish Eclectic home, designed by the…
You're driving through Burleson, Texas, a town born from the iron horse. Back in 1881, the railroad was pushing south from Fort Worth, and a man named Grenville Dodge bought land for a new depot. The deal included a…
You're driving through Johnson County, and right here was once the community of Marystown. It all started back in 1853 when the Reverend J. S. Wilshire and his family settled this fertile land along Quil Miller Creek.…
You're driving through Burleson County, Texas, near where James Milton Carroll settled with his family in 1858. He was orphaned young, but went on to Baylor University, pastored churches across Texas, and founded San…
You're driving past the Ayres Cemetery, a quiet resting place established by one of Tarrant County's earliest officials. In 1861, Benjamin Patton Ayres and his wife Emily bought a large farm here and set aside two acres…
You're driving past the Florence Shuman Hall in Fort Worth. This place started as a simple cottage built in 1905. Then, in 1910, pioneer civic leader W.R. Edrington rebuilt it. The real story kicks off in 1923 when the…
You're near Arlington Oakridge High School in Arlington. Last December, they took down Fort Worth Country Day thirty-eight to twenty-three to win the Texas SPC Division 3A state football championship. They wear that…
You're driving past Thistle Hill, a grand Georgian Revival mansion built in 1903. It was named by Electra Wharton, daughter of cattle baron W.T. Waggoner, and designed by the architectural firm Sanguinet & Staats.…
You're driving past the William G. Newby Memorial Building in Fort Worth. This house was built by Herman Frerichs, a cotton exporter from Germany, between 1910 and 1911. When World War I broke out in 1914, he and his…
You're driving through Fort Worth, and right here, you're passing the historic home of the Woman's Club of Fort Worth. Back in 1923, women from eleven different social and study groups, some already active before the…
You're cruising through Fort Worth, and right here you're passing the Ida Saunders Hall. This place was built way back in 1903 as the home of William Edrington Scott. Scott was a big deal here, and he gifted Fort Worth…
You're driving past Mitchell-Schoonover House. James E. Mitchell, a jeweler, demanded a high degree of skilled craftsmanship in the construction of this house. Completed in 1907, it was designed by the Fort Worth…
You're driving past the Margaret Meacham Hall in Fort Worth. This house, built back in 1905, has seen a few lives. Initially a private home, it was sold in 1920 to become a Nurses Residence for the Baptist Hospital.…
You're driving past Handley, a Fort Worth neighborhood that got its name from the Texas & Pacific Railroad back in 1876. Before that, it was called Turkey Knob! For a few years, Protestants here shared a union church…
You're driving past the site of WBAP-TV, the fifth television station to sign on in Texas! Founded by Fort Worth Star-Telegram publisher Amon G. Carter, its very first program was a public appearance by President Harry…
You're driving through Handley, a town that started with the railroad back in 1877. And right here, you're passing the Handley United Methodist Church. This congregation began the same year, with Reverend J.J. Cannafax…
You're near the reason Fort Worth is called 'Cowtown.' Local businessmen chartered the Union Stock Yards back in 1887 and opened the pens just north of the Trinity River in 1889, betting on the city's cattle-hub status.…
As you pass through the clean, modern streets of downtown Fort Worth, imagine this area a century and a half ago. This was Hell's Half Acre. From the 1870s until reformers and wartime pressure finally shut it down…
In November 1900, five men walked into a photography studio on Main Street in downtown Fort Worth. They were dressed in sharp suits and bowler hats, looking like successful bankers. But they were the most successful…
Look toward the massive industrial complex on the west side of town. That is Air Force Plant 4, and it's where Fort Worth built the Cold War. During World War II, this mile-long factory churned out B-24 bombers. But its…
Just after midnight, July tenth, 1969, six people came running into a Fort Worth police station screaming. Out on Greer Island at Lake Worth, they said, a thing — seven feet tall, part man, part goat, fur and scales —…
Picture downtown Fort Worth in 1983 — and then picture a rooftop cactus garden, a grotto bar, and a geodesic dome dropped on top of an 1880s brick building on Houston Street. That was Caravan of Dreams. Oilman's nephew…
In the Fort Worth Stockyards, there's a honky-tonk that's been standing since sometime around 1910 — nobody's ever pinned the exact year. For decades it was just The Longhorn Saloon, passing hand to hand through owners,…
Record Town has been in Fort Worth since 1957 — you'll find it at 120 Saint Louis Avenue, Suite 105, and you'll find just about anything in the bins. Muddy Waters and Lightnin' Hopkins racked up next to the Rolling…
In the old Livestock Exchange Building in the Fort Worth Stockyards, tucked into office one-thirteen, there's a museum the North Fort Worth Historical Society has run since 1989. Three dollars to get in — and they'll…
There's a light bulb in Fort Worth that's been screwed into the same socket since 1908. An electrician named Barry Burke put it into the backstage ceiling of the Byers Opera House — handblown glass, carbon filament —…
When the Civil War ended, K.M. Van Zandt built a cabin about the size of a two-car garage on the edge of Fort Worth — a town that counted maybe two hundred and fifty people in 1865. He was a Confederate major, and he…
Up in the Fort Worth Stockyards, the White Elephant Saloon has been pouring since back in the eighteen hundreds. It sat right at the edge of Hell's Half Acre — the rough district, gambling houses and worse — but just…
In 1958, at the height of the Cold War, a lanky 23-year-old pianist from Texas named Van Cliburn traveled to Moscow. He entered the first-ever International Tchaikovsky Competition, a Soviet event designed to showcase…
Under the ground here, six to eight and a half thousand feet down, sits the Barnett Shale — rock so tight it barely lets gas move through it at all. For years that made it nearly worthless. Then in May of 1997, a…
Established in 1849 as an army outpost, Fort Worth has a rich history tied to the cattle trade. It was a bustling center during the cattle drives, earning the nickname 'Cowtown.' The city also faced economic challenges,…
At 405 West County Road 714 sits a homestead older than the town of Burleson's incorporation, now reborn as a place to make art. The centerpiece is the Russell-Boren house, built in 1877, four years before the railroad…
This isn't just another train station; it's a monument to Fort Worth's ambitions and a reminder of a time when railroads ruled. The Texas and Pacific Railway, or T&P, dreamed of connecting the East Coast to the West.…
You're driving past the site of the Texas Spring Palace in Fort Worth. Imagine a grand, two-story exhibition hall, built in 1889, showcasing the best of Texas agriculture. It was a beautiful structure, adorned with…
You're driving through Fort Worth, passing the site of I.M. Terrell High School. This story starts way back in 1882, when Fort Worth opened its very first free public school for Black students. It was called the East…
You're driving past the Texas & Pacific Terminal Building in Fort Worth. Built in 1931 and designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick, this is a fine example of Art Deco architecture. Passenger rail service ended here on March 22,…
You're driving through Dalworthington Gardens, a community with a unique origin story. Back in <say-as interpret-as="date" format="y">1934</say-as>, during the Great Depression, this was one of five federal subsistence…
You're driving past the Rehoboth Cemetery, which began in 1871 with the burial of infant Mary Miller. This site served the community of Sublett, which had a school, post office, and church. Today, the Rehoboth Cemetery…
You're driving past Prairie Springs Cemetery, established way back in 1857. It was recognized as a Historic Texas Cemetery in 2004.
You're cruising past what used to be Hell's Half Acre, the notorious red-light district of Fort Worth. After the railroad arrived in 1876, this area exploded with saloons, gambling halls, and bordellos, catering to…
You're cruising through Fort Worth, and right here is the historic Santa Fe Depot, built back in 1899. This Beaux Arts beauty, with its native stone, once boasted painted glass windows showing the evolution of travel,…
This spot was once a crucial portal, connecting Fort Worth to the entire country by rail. Built around 1900 by the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad, this depot served passengers for over a century. It got a major…
Imagine a bustling hub of local produce and small businesses right where you're driving now. This is the site of the Fort Worth Public Market, a building with a fascinating history. Built by developer John J. Harden and…
You're driving past the site of Saint Paul Lutheran Church in Fort Worth. It all started in 1892, when Reverend Johann Christian Schulenburg began holding German-language services downtown. By 1896, the mission…
You're driving past the Fort Worth Public Market Building, constructed in 1930 by Oklahoma City developer John J. Harden. Designed by B. Gaylor Noftsger, it was meant to be a bustling hub for local farmers and…
You're driving past the Fort Worth Main Post Office Building. Established way back in 1856, the city's central post office operations moved here in 1933 when this impressive structure was completed. Designed by a local…
You're driving past Village Creek, a place that saw a dramatic turning point in Texas frontier history. Long before this, Native Americans lived and hunted here for thousands of years, leaving behind artifacts nearly…
You're driving past the area where, on May 24th, 1841, General Edward H. Tarrant led seventy men against several Indian villages along a creek. They recovered stolen horses and plunder, but the fight cost them dearly.…
You're driving past the Cobb-Burney House in Fort Worth, a beautiful example of Prairie School architecture. Built in 1904 for Lyman and Emma Cobb, this home sits prominently on the bluff overlooking the Clear Fork of…
You're driving past Saint Patrick's Cathedral in Fort Worth, a testament to faith and craftsmanship. It was built between 1888 and 1892, directed by Father Jean M. Guyot, who came all the way from France. Look closely…