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The Red Lobster restaurant was one of the first businesses on Bedford- Euless road, later to known as “Restaurant Row.” Pictured here are North Richland Hills officials, representatives of the Haltom-Richland Chamber of Commerce, and the business…

Rufus “Rufe” Snow (1867-1957) was an area farmer, Tarrant County Commissioner (Nov. 1913- Jan. 1918), and married to Jessie Melbourne Snow (1870-1942). They had 5 children together. He built their home on the southeast corner of what is now Rufe Snow…

Clarence Jones was the Chairman of the Board of the Haltom State Bank. He built a large house for his wife, Ruth Daley Jones, on his farm northwest of Pipeline Road and Grapevine Highway. Part of this farm was later subdivided into 182 lots. The…

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.

The Jones' family home being re-positioned on the land to begin construction in what would later become the first housing development of North Richland Hills.

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…

Mason’s Hobby Lobby, established in 1953, is the oldest continuously operated business in North Richland Hills Located at 6905 Grapevine Highway/ Contractor-builder Paul Mason (1907-1977) built the shop next to his home for his wife, Juanita. She…

Maud Arnold served as the first unpaid city secretary for North Richland Hills. Herb was a co-developer with Clarence Jones and helped to develop the first plots in North Richland Hills. Their office, located at 705 Grapevine Highway, was the first…

Flory moved his family to 3741 Rufe Snow Drive in 1941. After World War 2 he started a telegraph-teletype school and a woodworking shop in his home. He also installed his own water system. The large overhead water storage tank was the only one in the…

Haly Parchman and son Stanley Parchman and built the Rapid Mart on family land around 1955. The grocery store was located at 6969 Grapevine Highway. The store was officially owned by Tully Angle and Stanley Parchman. The store was best known for…