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70 unusual facts about Fort Worth


Angela Stanford

Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Stanford won the Fort Worth Girls Championship four times (1993–1996), the 1996 Texas State 4A High School Championship and the 1996 PING Texas State Junior Championship.

Barron Wortham

Barron Winfred Wortham (born November 1, 1969 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League who played seven seasons for the Houston Oilers / Tennessee Oilers / Tennessee Titans and the Dallas Cowboys.

Behind Hazel Eyes

It features a tour of hometown Fort Worth, Texas, which her high school elementary school where she first got on stage with a performance of Prince "When Doves Cry.

Blake Brockermeyer

Blake Weeks Brockermeyer (born April 11, 1973 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American football offensive tackle who formerly played for the Carolina Panthers, Chicago Bears, and Denver Broncos in the NFL.

Bob Bolen

Robert Eugene "Bob" Bolen (April 10, 1926 – January 6, 2014) was an American politician and businessman who held office as the Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas, from 1982 to 1991.

He married his wife, the former Fran Ciborowski, in 1952 and the couple soon moved to Fort Worth, Texas.

Bobbie Nelson

In 1961, after suffering a breakdown for the death of Bud Fletcher and the custody of her children was given to Fletcher's parents, she moved to Fort Worth, Texas where she worked for the Hammond Organ Company.

Carrie Wheeler

A partner in the Texas Pacific Group, based in Fort Worth, Texas, since 1996, she is a Member of the Board of numerous bodies including

Championship Cup Series

Headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas, CCS has been in operation since 1984, founded by Roger Edmondson in Asheville, North Carolina.

China Stamp Society

China Stamp Society chapters in the United States are located at: San Francisco Bay, California (Chiu Chin Shan Chapter); Los Angeles, California (Chia Nan Chapter); Chicago, Illinois (Ping Yuan Zhi Zhu Chapter); Dallas - Ft. Worth Area (North Texas Chapter); and, Seattle, Washington (Chang Qing Long Chapter).

David Maroul

David William Maroul (born February 15, 1983 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a former baseball player.

David Prychitko

Additionally, he held the Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Economics at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas (2003–2004).

Debra Saylor

She came to prominence during the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for amateurs in Fort Worth in 2000, where she finished third and was awarded Best Performance for the Romantic Era.

Dickinson County, Kansas

By 1893, this branch line was incrementally built to Fort Worth, Texas.

Edwin Moss Watson

After a year at the Ballot, he moved to Ft. Worth, Texas, where he worked as a reporter for two years on a predecessor to the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram.

Fannie Porter

She later claimed she had married Carver in Fort Worth prior to his death in 1901, but there are no records to verify the alleged marriage.

Fort Worth, Virginia

Over the seven weeks that followed the occupation of northern Virginia, forts were constructed along the banks of the Potomac River and at the approaches to each of the three major bridges (Chain Bridge, Long Bridge, and Aqueduct Bridge) connecting Virginia to Washington and Georgetown.

On Wednesday, November 27, 1861, Col. J. Howard Kitching marched with the 6th New York Artillery to occupy the Fort, and complete construction.

Funimation

The company was originally formed in Silicon Valley, California as Funimation Productions in 1994, but eventually relocated to Flower Mound, Texas, located near Fort Worth.

Future of the Royal Air Force

The delivery of the UK's first F-35B was made on the 19 July 2012 at Fort Worth, Texas, for flight trials by the RAF and Royal Navy.

Geoffrey Frank Grant

He migrated to the United States and currently resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

George Henry Burgess

The Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth), Texas, the Bancroft Library (University of California, Berkeley), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, California) and the Yosemite Museum (Yosemite National Park, California) are among the public collections holding works by George Henry Burgess.

Glenda Green

Also during this period (1968–69) she worked at Fort Worth's Kimbell Art Museum as research assistant to the institution's director.

Grupo México

Holds and operates the Texas Pacifico railroad in the United States that interconnects the border point Ojinaga, ChihuahuaPresidio, Texas with the city of Fort Worth, Texas.

Hamilton H. Howze

General Howze retired from active duty in 1965 to Fort Worth, Texas.

Hardy Brown

He was then sent, along with his brothers and sisters, to live at the Texas Masonic Home, an orphanage for the children of deceased Freemasons in Fort Worth, Texas.

J. C. Wetsel

Jesse Claude Wetsel was born March 17, 1910, raised in Dallas, Texas, and died November 5, 1980 in Fort Worth, Texas.

J. Kim Vandiver

One of his photos, "Bullet through Flame", is at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth, Texas.

Jacob Falconer

He then moved to Fort Worth, Texas, in 1919 and engaged in road-construction contracting, then to Farmington, New Mexico, in 1925 and was in the oil and gas industry.

Jamel Wallace

Jamel Anthony Wallace (born August 12, 1987 in Fort Worth, Texas), is an American soccer player currently playing for Wilmington Hammerheads in the USL Professional Division.

Jay Needham

Jay Charles Needham (born September 30, 1984 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American soccer player currently playing for Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League.

Jim Bronstad

James Warren Bronstad (born June 22, 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a former Major League Baseball player.

Jim Shofner

Shofner was a four-sport star at North Side High School in Fort Worth, Texas, serving as captain of three squads.

Joseph D. Macchia

Macchia founded GAINSCO in 1978 after borrowing $500,000 from a local bank in Fort Worth, Texas.

K25FW

K25FW is a Home Shopping Network affiliate for the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex, licensed in Corsicana, Texas, owned and operated by Ventana Television, the holding company for HSN's low-power television stations.

Karen T. Taylor

Taylor, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, developed an early aptitude for drawing and sculpting faces.

Kathryn Sansone

Sansone graduated high school in 1980, and attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas, studying education.

Kenneth Cracknell

After eight years in Cambridge, he took a position as Professor of Theology and Global Studies (later appointed Distinguished Professor) at Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas.

Khadevis Robinson

Khadevis Robinson (born 19 July 1976 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American retired middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

King Kamehameha Golf Course Clubhouse

In February 1949, Robert F. Windfohr and his wife Ann asked architect Frank Lloyd Wright to design a luxury home for them on the prairie of Fort Worth, Texas.

Kona Guitars

M&M Merchandisers, Inc. in Fort Worth, Texas established the music line in 2000 with the intent to create a first-of-its-kind quality guitar at an affordable price.

KTXH

The group signed on a similarly formatted station, KTXA in Fort Worth, in January 1981.

La Junta Subdivision

The line is dispatched from the BNSF control center located in Fort Worth, Texas.

Leventritt Competition

More recently, the Cliburn contest in Fort Worth, Texas, has attracted more publicity.

Levi Weaver

Weaver's first full-length album, "You Are Never Close To Home, You Are Never Far From Home" was made available at a CD show in Fort Worth, Texas at the Ridglea Theater in 2007.

In 2010, just as the album "You are never close to home" was nearing completion, Weaver discovered that the Ridglea Theater in Fort Worth, Texas was under contract to Bank of America, to be mostly demolished and turned into a drive-through bank.

Louis-Léopold Boilly

A major exhibition of his work, The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly: Modern Life in Napoleonic France, travelled to the United States where it was shown at both the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth and the National Gallery of Art in Washington (1995).

Lyle Kanouse

Lyle Kanouse is a stage, television, and movie actor, born in Fort Worth, Texas.

Michael Fors Olson

He began his studies for the priesthood in the Archdiocese of Chicago, but his family moved to Fort Worth, Texas and he transferred to the Fort Worth diocese.

Mike DeBardeleben

At the age of eighteen he was discharged from the air force and moved to Fort Worth, Texas with relatives of the family.

Nelson Olmsted

After study at the University of Texas, Olmsted began in radio in the late 1930s as an announcer for WBAP in Fort Worth, Texas.

Nick Welch

Welch, a 6'8" center from Fort Worth, Texas, attended the United States Air Force Academy Preparatory School for high school, then the United States Air Force Academy (AFA) for college.

Olesya Dudnik

Her breakout performance came at the 1989 American Cup in Fort Worth, Texas, where she finished second in the individual all-around competition.

Pat Steenberge

He previously served as Director of Corporate Development for the National Cutting Horse Association in Fort Worth, Texas.

Payne Field

Promoted to captain in October, 1917, Payne was transferred to Taliaferro Field, near Fort Worth, Texas.

Raymond Clayborn

Raymond DeWayne Clayborn (born January 2, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas), is a former American Football cornerback who played for the New England Patriots (1977–1989) and Cleveland Browns (1990, 1991) in the NFL.

Road Trips Volume 3 Number 2

The bonus disc contains material from the concert held the previous evening, November 14, 1971, at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas.

Robert H. Widmer

He eventually joined the company's main branch in Fort Worth, Texas, where he notably designed the Convair B-58 Hustler which was the first United States Air Force's bomber capable of Mach 2.

Ryan Beckman

Ryan Beckman (born on January 2, 1990 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American professional baseball pitcher who plays in the Pittsburgh Pirates' organization.

Spring Palace

The Texas Spring Palace in Fort Worth, was an agricultural fairground designed to attract settlers and investors to Texas, which opened, after construction that was completed in barely a month, May 29, 1889.

Stella Zakharova

At the World Championships held in Fort Worth, Texas she was a member of the Soviet women's team which finished second to the Romanian squad led by an injured Nadia Comăneci.

Steve Pickett

He was a news reporter at NBC affiliate television station KGW serving the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area, and now is reporter-anchorman at CBS owned-and-operated television station KTVT licensed to Fort Worth, Texas, and serving the Dallas-Fort Worth designated market area.

Texas Night Train

Texas Night Train is a 2001 independent horror film by Fort Worth, Texas-based artist and first-time filmmaker Shanti Guy.

Texas Straw Poll

The first poll was held on Saturday, September 1, 2007, in Fort Worth, Texas.

TRS-80 Color Computer

The TRS-80 Color Computer started out as a joint venture between Tandy Corporation of Fort Worth, Texas and Motorola Semiconductor, Inc. of Austin, to develop a low cost home computer in 1977.

When Love Comes to Town

This verse was sung during the song's premiere in Fort Worth, Texas on U2's Joshua Tree Tour and does not appear in the studio version or subsequent live performances.

Where the West Begins

"Where the West Begins", the motto for Fort Worth, Texas, the 16th-largest city in the United States of America

Wilfred Leigh Brintnell

A pilot, Brintnell instructed until his discharge in 1919, for the RFC at Fort Worth, Texas; the Royal Air Force at Camp Borden, Ontario; and the RAF in Upavon, England.

WWBA

WWBA is one of two 50,000-watt stations based in the Tampa Bay area (WHFS is the other); however, it broadcasts on a directional antenna at 1000 watts at night, to protect WBAP from Fort Worth, Texas.

Yale Lary

Robert Yale Lary (born November 24, 1930 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a former American football player.


2005 Dickies 500

The 2005 Dickies 500 was the inaugural running of the Dickies 500 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series stock car race, which was held on November 6, 2005 at Texas Motor Speedway (TMS) in Fort Worth, Texas.

Air Force Plant 4

Air Force Plant 4 is a government-owned, contractor-operated aerospace facility in Fort Worth, Texas, currently owned by the U.S. Air Force and operated by Lockheed Martin Aeronautics.

Baptist Bible Fellowship International

In 1948, George Beauchamp Vick (Norris' co-pastor in Detroit, Michigan) became president of the World Baptist Fellowship owned Bible Baptist Seminary of Fort Worth, Texas.

Chantal McCorkle

After being transferred from FCI Dublin in California, as of July 2009 she was an inmate at FMC Carswell (Fort Worth, Texas) in the United States with an expected prison sentence expiry date of 7 July 2014.

Dallas Protocol

Dallas Protocol is a public-private partnership between the City of Dallas in the U.S. state of Texas and the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, established in March 2003.

Don Pierson

Although this plan failed to develop, a small syndicated programming network was formed using that name over XERF, KXOL in Fort Worth, Texas and KVMX.

Fort Worth Classic

The Fort Worth Classic was a postseason college football bowl game played only once, on January 1, 1921 in Fort Worth, Texas, between Centre College and Texas Christian University.

Fort Worth FC

The team plays its home games in the stadium on the campus of Nolan Catholic High School in Fort Worth, Texas.

Genesis Television Network

Genesis was launched in 2006, originally only viewable in the Dallas/Fort Worth area on former Almavision affiliates KNAV-LP (in Spanish) and KHPK-LP (in English).

Horace S. Carswell, Jr.

Horace attended North Side High School, where he played football, with his high school highlight being the winning touchdown he scored on Armistice Day in a game against the Wichita Falls team in 1933.

John Clay Wolfe

He played defensive end for SMU Mustangs football during his first two seasons, but resigned from the team to open his first business venture in neighboring Fort Worth, Texas.

Odell McBrayer

Odell Lavon McBrayer (August 16, 1930 – March 18, 2008) was a Fort Worth attorney, Christian layman, and a Republican candidate for governor of Texas in the 1974 party primary election.

Oncor Electric Delivery

Predecessor companies include Dallas Power & Light (DP&L), which served the city of Dallas; Texas Electric Service Company (TESCO), which served areas surrounding Fort Worth; and Texas Power and Light (TP&L), which served other areas of northern and west-central Texas.

Rio Grande Valley Giants

The Texas League underwent a massive face lift in the late 1950s after three of its top franchises — Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston — moved up to the Triple-A American Association for the 1959 season.

Shamrock Basketball Association

Included in these locations are the following Texas cities: Dallas, Fort Worth, Forney, Richardson, Irving, Tyler, Longview, Conroe, College Station, Waco, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Lubbock, Abilene, and Midland.

State radio network

Five weeks later, TSN's debut broadcast originated from the old Casa Manana in Fort Worth, and featured personalities like Bob Hope and Texas Governor James Allred, along with a 300-voice choir.

Stoneburg, Texas

The town developed after the construction of the Chicago, Rock Island, and Texas Railway between Fort Worth, Texas and Salina, Kansas in 1893.

Texas State Network

TSN began five weeks after its incorporation date with a broadcast originating from the old Casa Mañana in Fort Worth, and featured personalities like Bob Hope and Texas Governor James Allred, along with a 300-voice choir.

The Potter's House Church, Dallas

As of 2010 the church had 30,000 members and four campuses in Dallas, Fort Worth, North Dallas and Denver.

Van Arsdale France

Prior to working for Disney, his skills in labor relations landed France a job as director of education for the Fort Worth Division of General Dynamics.

Vashti Murphy McKenzie

At this General Conference, she was reappointed to serve as the presiding prelate of the 10th Episcopal District, serving major cities such as Fort Worth, Waco, Dallas, Tyler, Austin, San Antonio, Houston, and Galveston, Texas; in the Northwest, North, Southwest, and Texas Annual Conferences.

Walt Garrison

He was named to the Dallas Cowboys 25th anniversary team and was also inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth.

WCKX

Officially, it is the first Radio One-owned station (along with Dallas/Fort Worth's KBFB, Philadelphia's WPHI-FM, which has changed to urban contemporary in 2011 & Indianapolis' WHHH) to be a rhythmic since the sale of former sister station WDHT in Dayton, OH and KTWN-FM in Minneapolis.