Let’s celebrate our country’s 250th!
The society’s 2026 Town Hall exhibit will do just that. In the meantime, a little local history lesson.
In July 1975, the city council approved its first city park on a 10-acre site at White Chapel north of FM1709. Plans included a community center, swimming pool, tennis courts, two baseball diamonds, a soccer and football field, playground and picnic areas estimated to cost $500,000.
“The council already had allocated its 1975 revenue sharing funds for the park,” a reporter wrote in a July 7, 1975 Fort Worth Star Telegram article, “and will include the park board in its 1976 budget for the first time.” On July 4, 1976, the park was dedicated and named Bicentennial to commemorate the 200th birthday of the United States.
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