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Parker Cemetery, located near the northeast corner of Interstate 820 and Highway 10, is the final resting place of more than a score of the descendants of Isaac Parker. Isaac is buried near Weatherford. His son, Isaac Duke Parker; his wife, Lucy W.…

This photograph of the girls’ basketball team at Birdville High School was taken about 1925.

Birdville High School Bi-district Football Champions 1939-40.
Back row: Glenn Thomas, Arthur Parr, James Cheatham, Marvin Harris.
Front Row: Joe Hatchet, J.W. Sinclair, Roy Jenuine, Junior Rudd, Troy Pennington, James Cate, Marvin Mackey.

Dr. Benjamin Franklin Barkley (1822-1882) donated land for the first Birdville School. Barkley practiced law and medicine and is buried in Birdville Cemetery, which also happens to be on land he donated.

About Dr. Barkley:

In 1855 Dr. Benjamin…

Green Valley Raceway was originally part of a dairy farm owned by Bill and Dorothy McClure. It was bought by a racecar driver, Bill Hielscher, in 1972. The last race was in July, 1986. It was located near the corner of present day Smithfield and…

Smithfield Lodge and Feed Store pictured here in 1975 on Main Street.

The Richland Youth Association Girls’ Softball Team, the Roadrunners, 1971.

Zion Methodist Church founded around 1866, probably first called “Willow Springs.” William Turner and his wife Mary (1819-1906) migrated to the Tarrant County frontier in 1856, establishing their home and blacksmith shop on the south side of Watauga…

Ceece, Henrietta, and Pierce Bideaux getting peaches ready for market.

Home of Will Snow (1890-1961) and his wife Vera Nimmo Snow (1894-1964), built on Grapevine Highway in 1919. Present site of a Valero Station on the corner of Scruggs and Grapevine Highway. The house was moved a few blocks north years later. Will was…