Archive for April 7th, 2009

While researching on the web for my story on K.M. Van Zandt’s cottage, I came across a remarkable resource on the city’s historic markers. I suppose this type of online resource is going to be available more and more often. The page offers a website with a map of the city, and clickable historic markers laid out on the map. This means you can quickly find out what’s in your area.

This website, called Stopping points,  is actually national in scope. It’s interesting to me to note that Fort Worth has a huge numberof historic markers. This is not due to the fact that Fort Worth is so old, I think, because it’s not, or even its size. It’s the great interest we have here in history and tradition. In case you want to explore, street addresses are provided by the site, and also, if you use a GPS, latitude and longitude.

If you want to see a marker touching on Cattle Brands or Amon Carter or Hells Half Acre or find out who John Peter Smith actually was, you can start at this website. Or, perhaps just as potentially interesting, check out the historic markers in your neighborhood. The impression that one gets from viewing the map is simple — Fort Worth is, and was, a happenin’ place. So take a moment and check out Fort Worth’s page at Stopping Points.