Three historic sites near Fort Worth: Inn and Stage Coach Stop at Johnson Station, Bird's Fort, Grave of Elizabeth Crockett

Creator

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Identifier

10023239

Description

Photo collage depicting three historic sites near Fort Worth. The clipping published in the March 5, 1934 Fort Worth Star-Telegram evening edition reads, "Three historic sites near Fort Worth which await marking are the old inn and stage coach stop at Johnson Station (upper left photo), the location of the 'old' Bird's Fort (upper right), and the crossroads near the grave of Elizabeth Crockett, wife of David [Davy] Crockett, in Acton Cemetery, Hood County (lower right). The inside walls of the two front rooms of the old inn are parts of the original building. A pavilion and a concrete swimming pool now mark the site of the old fort (diagramed in lower left corner). The crossroads from which the grave of the Alamo hero's wife is approached is near Cresson." A clipping published in the September 30, 1941 Fort Worth Star-Telegram evening edition reads, "The site of 'Old Bird's Fort' in Tarrant County: when Maj. Jonathan Bird, member of the Indian hunting expedition of Gen. E. H. Tarrant in 1841, passed the mouth of Fossil Creek in Northeast Tarrant County, he marked the spot and said 'I'm coming back here in the Fall and set up a trading post.' He did, and the post, known as Bird's Fort, became the second white settlement on the upper Trinity River watershed. A country club later built a swimming pool on the site. The pavilion erected near the pool is shown in the above [upper right] photo." The collage shows three photographs and a hand-drawn map showing Caloway [Calloway] Lake, Old Bird's Fort, a spring, the home of B. Rush Wallace in 1870, and grave sites.

Archival Date

1934-03-05

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-1-9-5a

Original Format

Prints, Sepia

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Portrait photographs; Scrapbooks; Albums (Books)