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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.

The home of Clarence & Ruth Jones sat on 12 acres that became the Greater Richland Shopping Center. The house was moved north to 4324 Cummings Drive and later Bricked.

Home of H.M. & Inez Howe. The house was built by Joe Womack in the late 1940s. It is now the site of NRH Bursey Senior Center. Womack, a gunite contractor, constructed the house of gunite cement on 40 acres for his family in 1948.