Legacy

Clarence Jones came to Fort Worth in the 1910s as an apprentice machinist; by the time of his death on April 25, 1966 he had started a water company, a lumber company, a bank, built a community, a shopping center, a business park, a masonic lodge, and became a member of the Fort Worth Club.

Jones literally went from forging and creating parts for trains to forging and creating communities. He went from digging in the dirt to create a well for his unproven water company to CEO and Chairman of the Board of his bank.

Clarence Jones' little community of 180 homes in the NE corner of Tarrant county has grown to a thriving city of over 70,000 people.

Green, G. N. (1999). The History of North Richland Hills : Where Families Live, Work, Worship, and Play. North Richland Hills: Smithfield Press.