Tarrant County, State of Texas

Map shows land patents, landowners, property boundaries, railroads, and towns for Tarrant County and portions of adjacent counties where property lines extend beyond county limits. Reliefs shown by hachures. Scale [1:66,667].
Date: 1888
Creator: Texas. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Fort Worth, Tex., "The Queen of the Prairies," county seat of Tarrant County.

Map shows street names, buildings, railroads, churches, and businesses; course of the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. Includes number key to businesses and churches; illustrations and railway map. Insets: "The Martin Brown Co.," "Henry & Peak." "Max Elser," "B. C. Evans Co.," "W.A. Huffman Implement Co.." "City National Bank," "Casey & Swasey," "W.F. Lake," "North End and Driving Park," "Fort Worth Opera House," "Joseph H. Brown, Wholesale Grocer," "Texas Wesleyan College," "Fort Worth's railway facilities," and "Main Street from Fourth to Square." Relief shown pictorially. Scale not given.
Date: 1886
Creator: Wellge, H. (Henry)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Gray's new map of Fort Worth Texas.

Map shows late nineteenth century Fort Worth, Texas railroads, street names, structures, businesses, and property ownership. Includes population statistic for 1885 and assessed valuation. Inset: "Reduced plan of entire city." Scales [1:9,600] and [1:4,800].
Date: 1885
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Commerce Street Scene in Ft. Worth, Texas in 1888

Aerial photograph of Ft. Worth at Commerce Street in 1888. In the center is a large strip of buildings, homes and businesses, surrounded with dirt roads and more homes across those streets. A store on the right corner of the black has a sign that reads, "Black Smith Shop". In the foreground are dirt trakcs, a telephone pole, and a few horse-drawn wagons.
Date: 1888
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks, November 19 1885] (open access)

[Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks, November 19 1885]

Hood County Tax Receipt for Milton Parks for the amount of eleven dollars and sixty-seven cents. The document was signed by B.W. Morris.
Date: November 19, 1885
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Co., 1881

Photograph of the Southwestern Telegraph & Telephone Co., 1881. The building is three stories tall with stairs on the side and a covered sidewalk with a banner. The building is surrounded by a dirt road and many large telephone poles and wires. Written at the top of the frame is, "Fox Newspaper" and at the bottom is, "Office and East 2nd Sts, Fort Worth."
Date: 1881
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tarrant County.

Map shows land patents, block and tract numbers, landowners, towns, and railroads; portions of adjacent counties where property boundaries extend beyond county limits. Scale not given.
Date: 1885
Creator: [Texas]. General Land Office.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History