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Joshua
is at the intersection of State Highway 174 and Farm Road 917, on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad seven miles southeast of Burleson and eight miles
north of Cleburne in north central Johnson County. It is in the Cross Timbers
region on land patented by W. W. Byers in 1867. The section was sold in 1874 to
John Powell. Caddo Grove, two miles west of Joshua, was the first community in
the area. It had its own post office and was a thriving town until the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe Railway was completed from Cleburne to Fort Worth in 1881.
The railroad missed Caddo Grove, and a station was built on the tracks at the
site of future Joshua. The station was originally called Caddo Peak, but the
name was rejected by the post office because of another Caddo Peak. The name
Joshua was chosen, purportedly by Dr. D. B. McMillan, after the biblical Joshua.
W. L. West was the first postmaster when the community received a post office in
1882. In 1883 Caddo Grove's post office was withdrawn.
The plat for Joshua was first surveyed in 1880, and the community was organized
in 1881 when the railroad arrived. The first store, opened in 1882 by W. L.
West, also housed the post office. By 1890 Joshua had a population of 300, two
steam corn mill- cotton gins, a hotel, a general store, and a newspaper, the
Johnson County Record. The railroad shipped farm produce, Joshua's largest
export. The first one-room school opened in 1890, and in 1899 it moved into a
new building. In 1917 this school became Joshua High School. In 1900 and 1912
Joshua suffered major fires. In spite of this, new businesses continued to open.
The Citizen's Banking Company, opened in 1904, was run by J. W. Spencer. Two
years later a public water system began. Truck gardens, orchards, and corn and
cotton farms surrounded Joshua. In 1912 the Fort Worth South Traction Line began
to provide service from Cleburne to Fort Worth and had a stop in Joshua. Service
stopped in 1932 because of the growing importance of automobile travel. The
first car in Joshua was purchased in 1913. By 1914 the community had a
population of 824, two cotton gins, an ice plant, a bank, a newspaper named the
Joshua Star, and four churches. Local farms grew cotton and potatoes. In the
mid-1950s Joshua was incorporated, with Ted Strube as the first mayor. The
population dropped to 550 during the 1950s and rose to 924 in 1970. By 1980 it
was 1,470. Because of its proximity to Fort Worth, the population grew to 3,828
by 1990. Joshua had fourteen businesses in 1970 and fifty-eight in 1980, when
seven local manufacturers made such items as aluminum products, boat trailers,
leather goods, and windows. The Joshua Tribune began publication in 1970 and was
published until the early 1990s, when it moved to Burleson.
Old State Highway 183 (now State Highway 10) was paved with concrete in 1950,
and in 1951 Bell Aircraft (Helicopter) announced it would build a plant in
Hurst. To prevent Fort Worth from annexing it and to help secure a water supply,
Hurst in 1951 voted, 36 to 24, to incorporate. A shopping center and apartments
were being built before that year was out. A chamber of commerce organized at
Hurst in 1952 and merged with the Euless chamber in 1955; the Bedford chamber
joined in 1969. The Hurst and Euless school districts merged in 1955, joined by
Bedford in 1958. It was estimated in 1958 that of the 8,500 people living in
Hurst, 50 percent worked in Dallas and 40 percent in Fort Worth. Blocked from
growing to the south by Fort Worth, Hurst from 1956 to 1958 overzealously
pursued annexations in other directions; this triggered intercity tensions and
defensive reactions by other "mid-cities" communities. The northeast campus of
Tarrant County Junior College opened in Hurst in 1968, prompting more growth and
jobs. During the height of the Vietnam War, the Bell Helicopter workforce topped
11,000, many of them building Hueys. Hurst, Euless, and Bedford formed a
hospital district in 1969. By 1970 the population of Hurst was more than 27,200.
The Northeast Mall arrived in 1972, doubling retail sales in Hurst in a month,
and in the early 1990s it remained the largest mall in Tarrant County. The
construction of the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airportqv and its January
1974 opening further stimulated the local economy, but in the 1970s the town had
almost reached the limits of possible expansion, and its population growth
inevitably slowed. Many of the newcomers were professionals and members of the
Republican party,qv which changed the character of the community. The population
of Hurst reached 31,400 in 1980 and 33,600 in 1990. |
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