Q 01/05

Fort Worth is the county seat of which Texas county?

A) Tarrant

B) Denton

C) Parker

D) Wise

Answer · why

A) Tarrant

Tarrant County first put its seat at Birdville; Fort Worth narrowly won a disputed 1856 election for the title, then a second, decisive vote in 1860.

Q 02/05

Fort Worth's original 1849 outpost sat on a bluff overlooking which river?

A) Brazos

B) Red

C) Trinity

D) Colorado

Answer · why

C) Trinity

Trinity River bottomland was the first site, but within months the soldiers relocated to the bluff above the Clear Fork, the spot downtown Fort Worth ...

Q 03/05

Which cattle breed's trade historically centered on Fort Worth?

A) Santa Gertrudis

B) Black Angus

C) Brahman

D) Texas Longhorn

Answer · why

D) Texas Longhorn

Texas Longhorn steers worth about $4 or $5 at home could fetch $40 up north in the late 1860s, so drovers walked huge herds through Fort Worth toward ...

Q 04/05

Fort Worth's namesake, William Jenkins Worth, held which job?

A) Army general

B) Texas Ranger captain

C) Railroad president

D) Cattle baron

Answer · why

A) Army general

Army general William Jenkins Worth never saw the place: he died of cholera in San Antonio in May 1849, weeks before the army named its new north Texas...

Q 05/05

When the garrison abandoned Fort Worth in 1853, what became of its empty buildings?

A) Settlers moved into them

B) The army burned them

C) They were sold at auction

D) They were hauled to Dallas

Answer · why

A) Settlers moved into them

Settlers moved into them, turning the vacant post into the start of a town; the military had never owned the land, so it had nothing to sell.