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

Local coffee shop, Roots, curbside sign.

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…

A short family history originally collected for the book "The History of North Richland Hills: Where Families Live, Work, Worship, and Play."

Rufe Snow Construction just North of 820

Rufe Snow Drive was an old unimproved country road when North Richland Hills was first established in 1953. Some of the city's earliest businesses were located near its intersection with Grapevine Highway. With the combination of the city growing,…

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 and his wife Ruth on vacation in Mexico.

S.J.D. Sansom Jr. (1861-1913); First Master of the Grand Prairie Lodge (named for the grand prairie region - not the city) and a Smithfield merchant. Son of Reverend Sam Durell Sansom (1816-1894) and Sarah King Sansom (1824-1861). In addition to…

Samuel Cody, for reasons unknown, erroneously listed his birthplace as Birdville. He also fabricated a story of a Native American attack on the family farm, allegedly resulting the separation from his parents for some years after that. However, He…