Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.

`` Dallas and Fort Worth can vote bonds.

* 1985 – Delta Air Lines Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar crashes at Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport killing 137.

In the Fort Worth Star-Telegram daily newspaper ( morning edition ) 19 September 1970, J. Howard " Doc " DeCelles states that he was actually the victim of the first skyjacking in December 1929.

" Doc " went on to work for the FAA in Fort Worth after his flying career.

That fall she performed her first ticketed concert — in Fort Worth, Texas — after beginning her freshman year at Furman University.

The Center is located on Crickets Ave, one street over from Buddy Holly Ave, in what used to be the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway Depot.

Three fixed wireless dishes with ( protective covers ) on top of 307 W. 7th Street, Fort Worth, Texas around 2001

He alternated barbering and fiddling even when he moved to Fort Worth after leaving Hall County in 1929.

While in Fort Worth, Wills added the " rowdy city blues " of Bessie Smith and Emmett Miller to a repertoire of mainly waltzes and breakdowns he had learned from his father, and patterned his vocal style after that of Miller and other performers such as Al Bernard.

In Fort Worth, Wills met Herman Arnspinger and formed The Wills Fiddle Band.

Bob Wills, 70, " Western Swing " bandleader-composer ; of pneumonia ; in Fort Worth.

Image: Claude Monet Weeping Willow. jpg | Weeping Willow, 1918 – 1919, Kimball Art Museum, Fort Worth

* Colonial Country Club ( Fort Worth ), a golf course in Texas

The team plays its home games at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, within the Dallas – Fort Worth metropolitan area, which finished construction in time for the 2009 season.

After failed negotiations to build a new stadium on the site of the Cotton Bowl, Jerry Jones along with the city of Arlington, Texas a suburb of Fort Worth, funded the stadium at a cost of $ 1. 3 billion.

Category: Sports in the Dallas – Fort Worth Metroplex

* Texas Christian University – Fort Worth, Texas

* Brite Divinity School – Fort Worth, Texas

In June 1825, he resolved to embark on an improved version of his " Anger of Achilles " ( also known as the " Sacrifice of Iphigenie "; the earlier version was completed in 1819 and is now in the collection of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.

The USA Cup is an international club tournament that is held annually in Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex, USA.

Oswald was born in New Orleans on October 18, 1939, to Marguerite Frances ( née Claverie ; New Orleans, Louisiana, July 19, 1907 – Fort Worth, Texas, January 17, 1981 ) and Robert Edward Lee Oswald, Sr. ( New Orleans, Louisiana, March 4, 1896 – New Orleans, August 19, 1939 ).

Planning for his enlistment, the family returned to Fort Worth in July 1956, and he re-enrolled in 10th grade for the September session at Arlington Heights High School in Fort Worth, but quit in October to join the Marines ( see below ); he never received a high school diploma.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

The new site was somewhat warmer than Fort Douglas and much closer to the great herds of buffalo on which the settlement must depend for food.

Nevertheless so short was the supply of seed that the settlers were forced to retreat to Fort Daer for food.

In September 1822 two companies of infantry arrived at the mouth of the St. Peter's River, the head of navigation on the Mississippi, and began construction of Fort St. Anthony which, upon completion, was renamed in honor of its commander, Colonel Josiah Snelling.

Bailly, after leaving Fort Snelling in August 1821, was forced to leave some of the cattle at the Hudson's Bay Company's post on Lake Traverse `` in the Sieux Country '' and reached Fort Garry, as the Selkirk Hudson's Bay Company center was now called, late in the fall.

Early in 1822 he was at Fort Garry offering to bring in pork, flour, liquor and tobacco.

As the time drew near for the drawing of the British-American frontier by terms of the agreement of 1818, the company suspected that the Pembina colony -- its own post and Fort Daer -- was on American territory.

Fort Toulouse, on the Alabama River, had been erected in 1714 for trade with the Alabamas and Choctaws, but money was available for only one other new post, near the present Nashville, Tennessee, and this was soon abandoned.

When he was inducted into the Army at Fort Knox, Ky., Hansen's weight had dropped to 180 -- `` too light for me to be at my best '' he said.

The commander of Fort Sumter, South Carolina, Major Robert Anderson sent a request for provisions to Washington, and the execution of Lincoln's order to meet that request was seen by the secessionists as an act of war.

Gen. John B. Floyd, who was to take command at Fort Donelson as the senior general present just before Brig.

Fort Henry on the Tennessee River was in an especially unfavorable low – lying location commanded by hills on the Kentucky side of the river.

Fort Donelson on the Cumberland River, although in a better location, also was not well – site, had a vulnerable land side and did not have enough heavy artillery for its defense against gunboats.

In 1858 he was transferred to Fort Moultrie in Charleston harbor, but by the start of the Civil War, he was a captain and second in command in the garrison at Fort Sumter, under Maj. Robert Anderson.

Fort Astoria was constructed in 1811.

Trapping was minimal and, after traveling about 1300 miles ( 650 on foot ), he finally arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Since the 1970s Fort Bend County has been one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States.

Part of the Dallas – Fort Worth metroplex, it is one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States.