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[Map of] Arlington [Texas]

Description: Map shows late nineteenth century Arlington, Texas street names, block numbers, lot numbers, and some dimensions. Scale not given.
Date: 1878
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Total Solar Eclipse in Fort Worth (1878)

Description: Photograph of seven astronomers -- Leonard Waldo, R.W. Wilson, J.K. Rees, W.H. Pulsifer, F.E. Seagrave, Alfred Freeman, and A.M. Britton -- with various telescopes set up out-of-doors near a large wooden barn or other structure. According to accompanying information they are on the S.W. Lomax farm, waiting to observe the total solar eclipse that happened on July 29, 1878.
Date: July 29, 1878
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 32.743388 -97.335885
Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

[Tax receipt for Aaron Parks]

Description: Tax receipt for Aaron Parks for the year 1872, for the amount of one dollar and fifty-five cents. The property taxed was valued at two hundred and thirty three dollars. The document was signed by J.C. Hightower, sheriff of Hood County in 1872.
Date: September 26, 1872
Creator: Hightower, J.C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Log Cabin Village

Painting of Early Fort Worth by Miranda Leonard, 1873

Description: Painting of an aerial view of Fort Worth in 1873. The painting depicts a town square with an American-flag topped courthouse in the center. Surrounding the courthouse are several buildings, some with fences. Throughout the painting are people, buggies, covered wagons and trees. On the right side of the frame is a sloping hill.
Date: 1873
Creator: Miranda Leonard
Item Type: Refine your search to only Artwork
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

Tarrant County Courthouse and Public Square in 1879

Description: Photograph of the Tarrant County Courthouse and public square. The courthouse is in the center of the photograph and surrounding the building are many men in jackets and cowboy hats with wagons pulled by horses. In the foreground is a wagon topped with haystacks and men standing on top of it. In the background are several buildings and a stack of lumber. A piece of paper at the bottom of the photograph reads, "The Public Square and Court House in 1879. To the East can be seen the Old Mason… more
Date: 1879
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: University of Texas at Arlington Library

[T&P Engraving of Fort Worth]

Description: Photograph of an engraving of the city of Fort Worth, Texas. The image depicts Fort Worth with buildings stretching into the distance and five plumes of smoke rising from throughout, two of which can be seen to come from train engines. The caption of the image is "Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, 1876. 'Queen of the Prairies.'" The "Queen of the Prairies" phrase comes from a nickname for Fort Worth. Written below the image is "This engraving is part of an 1876 T&P map," and "J.C. McDaniel."
Date: 1876
Creator: McDaniel, J. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: The Grace Museum

[Land Deed from E. R. Boardman to G. E. Bushong, June 20, 1879]

Description: Land deed from Mr. and Mrs. Boardman to G. E. Bushong, J. L. Morehead, Z. T. Wall, Zebulong Jenkins, and J. E. M. Yates, acknowledging the sale of a piece of land for the sum of $75. The second paragraph outlines the perimeters of the land being sold, which is on the three acre lot "deeded to E. R. Boardman and S. A. Boardman by E. N. Hudgins and wife..." The statement on the second page says that the undersigned "This day personally appeared E. R. Boardman, S. A. Boardman" on their own free … more
Date: June 20, 1879
Creator: Woods, J. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: City of Grapevine

[Land Deed from Mr. and Mrs. Boardman to Five Individuals, February 27, 1879]

Description: Land deed from E. R. Boardman and his wife to five individuals: Z. T. Wall, George E. Bushong, J. E. M. Yates, Zeb, Jenkins, and J. L. Morehead. The deed gives the men ownership of land "lying in the village of Grapevine County of Tarrant, on the waters of Denton Creek." The rest of the document outlines the perimeters of the land and what it encompasses.
Date: February 27, 1879
Creator: Woods, J. P.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: City of Grapevine
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