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just to the north of Fort Worth, is on State Highways 121 and 10, north of the
West Fork of the Trinity River in the northeastern quadrant of Tarrant County.
By the middle or late 1840s farmers were beginning to settle within what are now
the confines of Hurst. Isaac Parker's log cabin, purchased in 1853, lay just
outside what is now the southwestern corner of Hurst, and the Parker family
cemetery is now within the city limits. Important among the settlers who moved
there after the Civil Warqv were Tennessee families, especially that of William
L. Hurst, and Indiana families, including those of Daniel Arwine and Jeff
Souder. The Indiana clans established a church and school at the site in the
late 1870s and thereafter the community always supported at least one church and
one school. The Arwine farming and ranching community grew slowly until the Rock
Island line was built through in 1903. William Hurst donated land in exchange
for the establishment of a depot named for him. The Rock Island at first labeled
the site Hurst, but there was already a Hurst in Coryell County that had a post
office. So the budding Tarrant County community was soon named Ormel; it had a
post office from 1904 to 1909. The community was renamed Hurst in 1909. The
depot and its stationmasters and telegraphers operated for some thirty years.
Yet there were probably no more than twenty people in downtown Hurst between
1910 and 1920, and the area's agricultural products-cotton, grain, and
cattle-were not enough to make the train stop regularly. Sand and gravel
excavations began south of Hurst in the Trinity riverbottoms early in the 1900s;
larger round-the-clock operations began in the 1920s. Illegal whiskey was brewed
along the wooded river too, selling for about $10 a gallon during prohibition,qv
1919-1933. After 1903 there was at least one general store in the community, and
during the 1930s and 1940s a handful of grocery stores, filling stations, and
cafes opened. The Work Projects Administrationqv erected a brick school in 1940,
and the population of Hurst numbered perhaps 100. By the 1940s Hurst was
becoming a bedroom community for Fort Worth. Its post office was revived in
1949. |
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