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 Forklift Attachments Fort Worth - Fort Worth, the fifth biggest city within Texas state and the 17th biggest city in the United States of America, is the 2nd biggest economic and cultural center of the Dallas-Fort-Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. Initially created as a protective Army outpost which overlooks the Trinity River, Fort Worth City has a western heritage with traditional architecture and designs.
The history is directly connected with the history of the Texas frontier and the city of Dallas. Major Ripley Arnold founded the new fort site close to the West and Clear Forks gathering in the year 1849. He put up a post on the banks of the Trinity and called it Camp Worth in honor of William Jenkins Worth, a US Army General, a well-respected veteran of the Mexican-American War. The U.S. officially granted the name "Fort Worth" during 1849. A lot of pioneers began to reside within the area around Fort Worth despite the Native Americans who were still considered a threat to the community. The Civil War and Reconstruction nearly wiped Fort Worth off the map due to money shortages burdened by the citizens. It gradually revived itself during the 1870's, and soon, the city opened national banks, saloons, general stores, plus numerous others. Schools likewise opened gradually after the war, and when the cattle business exploded within the area, the city's financial system grew and became referred to as "Cowtown."
Museum lovers might want to check out American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum, Amon Carter Museum (provides visitors a stunning survey of American art, from the very first landscape painters of the 1830s to contemporary artists of the twentieth century), Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House, Ballet Concerto (presented annually since the year 1983 the "Summer Dance Concert", that has been a free outdoor dance event presented in Fort Worth's Cultural District), Cattle Raisers Museum, Fire Station No. 1, Fort Worth Community Arts Center (features the talents of regional artists in theatre, dance, music, studio, art, poetry and opera), Fort Worth Museum of Science and History/Omni Theater (it is home to many interactive and exciting exhibits for children of different ages), Galleries (Art on the Boulevard, Artspace 111, The Firehouse Art Studios and Gallery, Hometown Galleries, Milan Galleries, Lucky Draw Pottery Gallery and Artisans Studio, William Campbell Contemporary Art and Spur Ranch Gallery), ITC Historic Wall (celebrates the African-American mercantile and warehouse district that thrived within the eastern edge of downtown in early Fort Worth), Kimbell Art Museum, and Leonard's Department Store Museum (department store within downtown Fort Worth).
There are several businesses headquartered within Fort Worth. They include: Airforce Airguns, Acme Brick, Alcon (United States Headquarters), AmeriCredit, American IronHorse, Bell/Agusta Aerospace Company, Bell Helicopter Textron, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Ben E. Keith, Consolidated Robotics, Cash American International, Coria Laboratories, Ltd., Cawley, Dickies and Gillespies & Assoc.
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