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The future site of North Richland Hills lay astride the eastern Cross Timbers and the Grand Prairie. The east side of town was wooded with hills and soil. The west side was flatter, black prairie land with clay and fewer trees.

Some of the members of the Smithfield Home Demonstration Club pose together. From left to right: Edna Hightower, Jessie Scott, E.F. Crites, Etta Shivers, Ina Turner, and Maggie Gilbert.

The Lacy and Lois Stewart home, pictured here in 1989, was built in the Smithfield area in 1958. The four-acre plot was also the site for the Smithfield reunion for many years.

The native rock house pictured here is located on Scruggs Drive and Harmonson Road. Jack Holder, Tiny Anderson, Herbert Walker, Finas Buckingham, and Jackson Himes built it in the late 1940s.

Shivers’ home on what is now Davis Boulevard circa 1925.

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

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…

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…

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…

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.