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Stock yards, north Fort Worth, Texas (postcard, c.1900s) The arrival of railroads in 1876 made the area a very important livestock center. Fort Worth Union Stockyards opened for business on January 19, 1890, covering 206 acres. On February 7, the Fort Worth Dressed Meat and Packing Company was founded. This facility was operated without profit ...
The Star-Telegram reported in 2016 that the building’s over 100-year-old scale was saved, but its current whereabouts are unknown. Visitors flood East Exchange Avenue near Mule Alley in the Fort ...
It is kept at the Stockyards Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The light bulb was made by the Shelby Electric Company and was first put in the Byers Opera House, which became the Palace Theater in 1919. This building was marked for demolition in 1977, and a local man brought the bulb to his home and looked after it.
Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo. The Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo (formally the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show) is the oldest continuously running livestock show and rodeo. It has been held annually in Fort Worth, Texas since 1896, traditionally in mid-January through early February.
A Texas longhorn stands in a herding pen on Friday, June 7, 2024, at the Fort Worth Stockyards. The expansion project would allow more interactive spaces for visitors to see the animals.
The historic Armour Building in the Fort Worth Stockyards on Friday, July 14, 2023. The Armour meatpacking plant opened with eight buildings in 1903 alongside the Swift & Co. plant.
Cowtown Coliseum is a 3,418-seat arena in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, that hosts weekly rodeos.It also occasionally hosts concerts and local team sporting events. The venue was built in 1908 and was originally known as Grand Coliseum. [1]
The almost $1 billion expansion, which will nearly double the size of the Stockyards on what’s now mostly surface parking and livestock pens behind Billy Bob’s Texas, will include at least 295 ...