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Birdville School 1924-1925

Top Row:
Lucille Castor, Mary Bell Angle, Onas Brooks, Mary Roberts, Nell Gray (the teacher), Catherine Tomas, Jane Reeves, Joseph Brown.

Second Row:
Emmitt Wills, Madie Sexton, Ethel Thompson, Madine Cornish,…

Aerial view of Birdville stadium between Broadway and Grapevine Highway/Belknap Street, December 1965.

September 3, 1943, at 7 a.m., two B-24 Liberator bombers collided in midair over Birdville. The bombers crashed to the earth about two miles northeast of Birdville where Richland Plaza is today. One plane broke in two and dropped in a creek bed. The…

Two B-24 Liberators collided midair around 7 a.m. over Birdville leading to a fiery crash. More details about the crash can be found in the article.

The site of the crash was near Richland Plaza Drive and Big Fossil Creek.

Ed McConnell at Mary Frances Reeves' home on Booth Calloway Road.

Br. Albert Gallatin Walker 7/14/1849-11/19/1912. Photo from the Grand Prairie Masonic Lodge.

C.A.’s Restaurant with C.A. Sanford himself standing in front while brandishing a golf club.

A scan of a Fort Worth Press article about the Calloway home.

Rural visitors of Calloway pastureland with Four Points and Cunningham Grocery in the background circa 1950.

Catherine (Kate) Calloway (1876-1951), seated on the porch of her family home. She and her husband Marsh Calloway (1869-1945) owned 2,100 acres of farmland that stretched from the railroad tracks near what is now Iron Horse Boulevard where they…