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J.J. Hurley/ Wade Cutchin home, Grapevine Highway and Vance Road, pictured here in the mid-1940s. Later this property became the site of Northeast National Bank in 1961.

Richland Plaza opened August 2, 1962. It was northeast Tarrant County’s first regional shopping center with stores such as Montgomery Ward, J.C. Penney, and Buddies.

In this aerial view, the Haly Parchman home and farm are on the left; the Wade Cutchin home is on the right across Vance Road fronting Grapevine Highway. The Bill Mackey Dairy farm is in the upper left corner. The picture was taken in the 1940s.

Roy Jenkins and his wife Daisy purchased 18 acres with a house in 1948 in the northeast of Tarrant County at the corner of Smithfield Road and Watauga Road and then north to the railroad tracks. He owned and operated Fort Worth Blueprint Company from…

Home of H.M. & Inez Howe. The house was built by Joe Womack in the late 1940s. It is now the site of NRH Bursey Senior Center. Womack, a gunite contractor, constructed the house of gunite cement on 40 acres for his family in 1948.

After the fire on January 3, 1947, a library was built where the gymnasium had been. A new gym-cafeteria was built and more buildings were added as the district’s population increased.

The famous "Red Brick Building" built in 1926 can be seen with an adjoining addition and high school-gymnasium near the corner of Carson and Baker Boulevard. A fire destroyed the gymnasium January 3, 1947. Notice the football field which is now a…

The famous red brick building was really the second red brick building built for the Birdville ISD. The one pictured was opened for the 1926 school year after the previous building burned. The two-story building had four classrooms on the lower floor…

Tarrant County’s first courthouse, Birdville, Texas. Terrell’s cabin, 6100 Broadway Street, in Haltom City, Texas is believed to have served as the county seat from August 1850- November 1856 until Fort Worth won the county seat by a small margin in…

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