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OUR STORY

THE EARLY YEARS OF FUNKYTOWN
[Portions taken from Wikipedia]
The history of Fort Worth, Texas, in the United States is closely intertwined with the history of northern Texas and the history of the Texan frontier. From its early history as an outpost and a barrier against Native American threats, to its later days as a booming cattle town, to modern times as a corporate center, the city has changed dramatically, although it still preserves much of its heritage in its modern culture.
In January 1849, U.S. Army General William Jenkins Worth, an admired veteran of the Mexican-American War, proposed building ten forts to mark where the west Texas frontier began from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River. Worth died on 7 May 1849 from cholera. The US War Department officially granted the name "Fort Worth" to the post on 14 November 1849.



 

The effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction nearly wiped Fort Worth off the map during the 1860s. The city's population dropped as low as 175 and food, supply, and money shortages burdened the citizens. As the War's effects began to fade, so did the city's hardships, and it gradually began to revive itself into the 1870s. By 1872, William Jesse Boaz, William Henry Davis, and Jacob Samuels opened general stores. In 1873, Khleber M. Van Zandt established Tidball, Van Zandt, and Company, which became the Fort Worth National Bank in 1884. Barrooms like Tom Prindle's Saloon and Steele's Tavern welcomed many travelers. In 1876, future Denver, Colorado crime boss, Soapy Smith arrived in Fort Worth and began his criminal career operating his famous soap sell confidence tricks on the unwary. At this time weekly newspapers abounded, including the Fort Worth Chief and the Democrat. Schools reopened gradually after the war, and in 1869 Randolph, Addison, and Ida Clark taught six students in a local church.
Barrooms, a school, and newspapers did not mean much economically other than sustainability — it was the cattle industry that really boomed Fort Worth into "Cowtown." In 1873 Fort Worth was incorporated.
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More recently,

Fort Worth is rapidly becoming a Music, Art, and Cultural Mecca for like minded people who want to support local, live more sustainably, and eat healthy, toxin free food.
We make our own whisky, beer, bread, beans, pickles, clothes, jewelry, food, and anything else that we currently get shipped from China and other countries.

We don't need the global economy!!!
We have it all right here!!!

 

Sustaining local business and culture is enough to keep a city going and flourish.
By buying and supporting local, we are saying that we believe in our city and the people who live in it.

By saying "Keep Fort Worth Funky"
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By saying "Keep Fort Worth Funky" you are saying:

 

You support Local Business
You support Local Art and Artists
You support Local Farmers
You support Local Music
You support Local Activists
You support Local Activities
You support all things that are unique to this city!!!

Austin can be weird, We can be Funky.......

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Fort Worth has a history of tough and Funky characters!!!
Come inside and see
what new Funkiness is taking place in this great city we call Fort Worth!!!

General Worth

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