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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…

The three daughters of Joe and Hazel Womack pose in front of the family home on Bursey.

The back side of the Womack home. The building would later be put into service as a the Bursey Road Senior Center

Winn Dixie and Eckerd Drugs sit side by side at the corner of Rufe Snow Drive and Mid-Cities.

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…

The Wayne W. White Family moved from Fort Worth to the present address on Harmonson Road in March of 1949. We have remodeled and rebuilt twice since then. When we came here. We had a county paved two-lane street. We had bus service on the hour…

Tongan dancers can be seen here performing traditional dances in traditional garb. Since the mid-1970s there has been an active Tongan community in Euless, Texas. An opportunity at a better life and work with the airlines and DFW International…

Benjamin Franklin Andrews (1826-1894), a farmer, moved to the area between present-day Onyx Drive South and Glenview Drive in the 1850s. He grew cotton, oats, and corn on his land. He was married to Mary Ray Andrews until her death (1845-1868). In…

A newspaper published by "Dr." H. C. Allison (though he represented himself as a doctor Allison only briefly attended chiropractor school). The Smithfield Signal being his second newspaper after an earlier endeavor in 1939. The first paper was called…

Vera Abbott worked her way through college during the Great Depression. She was studying to be a teacher at Commerce State College in Commerce, Texas. After she earned her teaching certificate, Vera moved to Smithfield, Texas, to live with her…