Arlington's Past is a Present Concern

Arlington's Past is a Present Concern

For a city that's not exactly famous for its historic preservation efforts, it's interesting how much history has been in the news... Read More

Surveyor Warren A. Ferris at the Three Forks

Surveyor Warren A. Ferris at the Three Forks

One day in 1982, Eastfield Community College professor Susanne Starling discovered a historian’s gold mine in one of her history classes... Read More

Arlington Project Sells for $51 Million

Arlington Project Sells for $51 Million

ARLINGTON - The 2,000-acre Lakes of Arlington mixed-use project, a work in progress in north Arlington for the past half decade... Read More

Fighting for Bird's Fort

Fighting for Bird's Fort

Bird's took a bold stab against the wild and dangerous West. Its founders in 1841 were few in number and ill-supplied, but in their... Read More

Arlington May Annex Historic Fort Next to Metrovest Property

Arlington May Annex Historic Fort Next to Metrovest Property

ARLINGTON - Surrounded by the 1,800 acres north of Arlington that the city is expected to annex from Metrovest... Read More

Protecting History in Arlington

Protecting History in Arlington

The city of Arlington will soon have the chance to protect one of the most important historical sites in Tarrant County... Read More

Historical Site Getting High-Dollar Face-Lift

Historical Site Getting High-Dollar Face-Lift

ARLINGTON - For more than 150 years, a 2,000-acre parcel of land in the Trinity River flood plain near the center of... Read More

The Bird's Fort Preservation Committee Report to the Tarrant County Historical Commission

The Bird's Fort Preservation Committee Report to the Tarrant County Historical Commission

Disturbed by the tremendous excavations being... Read More

Gone But Not Quite Forgotten

Gone But Not Quite Forgotten

A Texas treasure lies near the bank of a crescent-shaped lake in eastern Tarrant County under... Read More

The Ron Wright Letters Concerning the Preservation of the Bird's Fort Site

The Ron Wright Letters Concerning the Preservation of the Bird's Fort Site

Ronald Jack White (April 8, 1953 - February 7, 2021)... Read More

Garden Path: Investor Plans Tourist Magnet for Land Parcel North of Arlington

Garden Path: Investor Plans Tourist Magnet for Land Parcel North of Arlington

ARLINGTON - A Nevada investor who paid cash for 2, 100 acres of woodlands, prairie and rolling hills along... Read More

Sunbelt Savings Buys Land in Floodplain

Sunbelt Savings Buys Land in Floodplain

ARLINGTON - Nearly 2,000 acres of undeveloped land in the Trinity River flood plain once considered as a possible... Read More

Riverside Site Could Delay Rangers' Plan for New Stadium

Riverside Site Could Delay Rangers' Plan for New Stadium

ARLINGTON - The Texas Rangers, who have said they would like to be in a new baseball stadium for the 1993 season... Read More