Overview
Fort Worth is the fifth largest city of the state of Texas and 19 the largest the United States. The city is also a large geographical area, as it covers almost 300 square miles of Tarrant County and the county seat and 18. the most populous county in the country.
From the 2000 U.S. Census, Fort Worth population of 534,694 (although the 2005 Census estimate placed the population 624,067). The city is the second-largest cultural and economic center of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metropolitan area (hereinafter referred to colloquially Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex), the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., where 5.7 million live in 12 counties.
Fort Worth was established in 1849 as a military camp, named after General William Jenkins Worth. Today, the city represented by a more old-fashioned and laid-back than its neighbor, Dallas. Known as "Cowtown" for its rough and rowdy roots, Fort Worth still celebrates its colorful Western heritage today, and bills itself "Where the West begins."
In 1849, at the time of the closure of the Mexican-American War, Major Ripley Arnold of the fort, was appointed to the General William Jenkins Worth near the high bluff where the West Fork and Clear Fork Trinity River merge together. The fort was flooded the first year and was moved to the top of the bluff where the courthouse sits today. The fort was established to protect the 19th century settlers attacks on India. He grew into a bustling city, where he became a stop along the legendary Chisholm Trail is a dusty path where millions of cattle in the North on the market. Fort Worth became the center of the cattle drives, and later, the industry has grown. The heyday of the cattle drives was the wild era of "Hell's Half Acre" area of town filled with gambling parlor, dance hall and saloon. In 1876, Texas and Pacific Railway of Fort Worth and the Fort Worth Stockyards will be made premier livestock center. Oil began to gush West Texas, Fort Worth was the center of the wheeling and dealing. In 2000, Tornado F-3 classification smashed through downtown, tearing many buildings, including the bank Tower One, into shreds and scrap. Bank One tower has been renovated and sold, most of which are sold condominiums.
Areas
Sundance Square
Sundance Square - Fort Worth's downtown has Sundance Square, the name of the infamous Sundance Kid. The Sundance Square is a 16 block entertainment center for the cities. The Square is the tall windows of the buildings, as well as brick-paved streets and sidewalks, and landscaping that many consider to be very attractive. Many restaurants, nightclubs, boutiques, museums, theaters and art galleries are located in a place to live.
Fort Worth Water Gardens - A 4.3 ha acre/1.74 a modern park that features three unique pools of water offering a calming and cooling oasis for downtown customers.
Fort Worth Convention Center - Includes the 11,200 seat multi-purpose arena.
Bass Performance Hall - Bass Hall is active in the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Texas Ballet Theater, Fort Worth Opera, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and Cliburn Concerts.
Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District
The Stockyards offer a taste of the old west and the Chisholm Trail at the site of the historic cattle drives and rail access. District filled restaurants, clubs, gift shops and attractions such as the day-to-day Longhorn cattle drives through the streets, historic reenactments, the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame and Billy Bob, the world's largest country and western music spot.
Cultural district
Modern (the former Museum of Modern Art in Fort Worth), founded in 1892, is the oldest art museum in Texas. Its permanent collection consists of approximately 2,600 works of post-war art. In 2002, the museum into a new home created by Japanese architect Tadao Ando.
The Kimbell Art Museum houses ancient works of 20 century. Artists represented in its holdings include Caravaggio, Fra Angelico, Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, El Greco and Rembrandt. Museum of the American home was designed by architect Louis Kahn.
The Amon Carter Museum focuses on 19th and 20 century American artists. It houses an extensive collection of works by Western artists Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell as well as an impressive collection of 30,000 exhibition-quality photographs. It also includes works by Alexander Calder, Thomas Cole, Stuart Davis, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, John Singer Sargent, and Alfred Stieglitz. American architect Philip Johnson designed the museum's home, including its expansion.
The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Museum is the only world that is only dedicated to honoring women in the American West who have demonstrated extraordinary courage and pioneer spirit of his trail blazing efforts.
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History - One of the largest Science and History Museums Southwest. It includes the Noble Planetarium and Omni Theater.
Will Rogers Memorial Center - more than one goal a world-class entertainment complex and equestrian center housed under 45 acres of roof spread over 85 acres in the heart of the Fort Worth Cultural District. Each year, approximately 800,000 people attend the three week event known as the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, formerly called the Fort Worth Fat Stock show and rodeo.
Casa tomorrow - The nation first theater designed for musicals in the round. "
Parks district
Fort Worth Zoo - Ranked one of the 10 best zoos in the United States.
Fort Worth Botanic Garden - The oldest botanical garden in Texas, 21 specialty gardens and more than 2,500 plants. Log Cabin Village - a collection of authentic Texas log cabins dating from the 1850s.
In East Fort Worth
Over recent years, the east of Fort Worth has been referred to as "Funkytown", not "Cowtown," mainly urbanites. Over the past two decades, 20 century, the Crip and Blood gangs started in the migration of California, east of Fort Worth was often referred to as the "Murder Worth" or "Little Chicago", as hundreds of bodies began to show, who do not have sufficient amounts of evidence, it is necessary to bring those responsible for court for the increasing murder rate. Ida-Fort Worth has since changed, as well as the size and skills of the police is growing fast.
Uptown / Trinity
The Tarrant Regional Water District, City of Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Streams & Valleys Inc, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers work together to try to develop an area north of "downtown" as "uptown" along the Trinity River. This scheme supports a high density, mixed-use development adjacent to the central city area of Fort Worth, seeking to prevent urban sprawl by promoting growth of healthy, vibrant urban core. Trinity River Vision lays the foundations to enable Fort Worth's central business district to double the size of the next 40 years.