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Ed Walker’s filling station on Main Street in Smithfield in the 1930s.

Edison’s and Rowater Home Centers stores on Grapevine Highway and City Point Drive.

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 exterior of the North Richland Hills Library, located at the southeast corner of Rufe Snow Drive and Interstate 820.

A first and second-grade play at Smithfield Elementary, 1948-49. Notice the advertising for B.C. Redding’s Grocery Market/Filling Station above the curtain.

North Richland Hills did not get an official police force until 1960. Pictured here is the first paid police force.

Left to Right:
Back Row; Joe Beltram, Johnny Baze, J.C. Godwin, Bill Walton.
Front Row: Unidentified Dispatcher, Johnny Wise,…

The very first stop light in the city was installed at Grapevine Highway, Blaney and Pipeline Road, now called Glenview Drive.

Kenneth "Ace" Nace and Dayle Nace

From the back of the picture “Maruin Leslie, retired from American Airlines chats with retired AA Capt and former NRH mayor Kenneth Nace.”

A Fort Worth Christian Cardinals cheerleader at a 1986 pep rally.