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A man and his dog performing tricks for the camera.

Downtown Smithfield with cars lining the street.

Henry Clay Allison was born in Hood County, Texas in 1896 and died in 1976. He settled in Smithfield in the mid-1930s. He helped form the Northeast Tarrant Civic League in 1941. He also opened a chiropractic clinic and the Smithfield Springs Health…

Dr. Henry Gilbert (1850-1932) and Mrs. Maggie Gilbert (1862-1946) with granddaughter Maurine Pruitt, later Maurine Shaw. Dr. Gilbert practiced medicine in and around the Smithfield Community in the late 19th Century. He also farmed about 240 acres in…

Picture of the ruins of Dr. Henry Gilbert’s old home on Main Street in Smithfield in the summer of 1975.

Dr. Lilburn H. Colley (1843-1924) and wife Martha S. Colley (1860-1914). One of four doctors in the Bransford Community of some 124 families. Colley practiced medicine in this area for more than 40 years. As a result of his dedication the community…

Edgar Douglass Walker (1870-1954) and son Moody Childress (1900-1977) Walker in front of Walker’s service station on Main Street in Smithfield. The station later burned in Smithfield’s second great fire in 1930. Walker was also a blacksmith.

Ed Walker’s filling station on Main Street in Smithfield in the 1930s.

Edison’s and Rowater Home Centers stores on Grapevine Highway and City Point Drive.

Texas General Edward H. Tarrant commanded two expeditions into present Tarrant County in 1842. The monument to Edward H. Tarrant, erected in 1931, is located in Pioneer’s Rest Cemetery in Fort Worth.