The settlement of Fort Worth, Texas, is…
June 1849 CE
The City of Fort Worth continues to be known as "where the West begins."
A line of seven army posts had been established in 1848–49 after the Mexican War to protect the settlers of Texas along the western American Frontier and includes Fort Worth, Fort Graham, Fort Gates, Fort Croghan, Fort Martin Scott, Fort Lincoln, and Fort Duncan.
Originally ten forts had been proposed by Major General William Jenkins Worth, who commanded the Department of Texas in 1849.
In January 1849, Worth had proposed a line of tenforts to mark the western Texas frontier from Eagle Pass to the confluence of the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River.
One month later, Worth died from cholera in South Texas.
General William S. Harney had assumed command of the Department of Texas and had ordered Major Ripley A. Arnold (Company F, Second United States Dragoons) to find a new fort site near the West Fork and Clear Fork.
On June 6, 1849, Arnold, advised by Middleton Tate Johnson, establishes a camp on the bank of the Trinity River and names the post Camp Worth in honor of the late General Worth.
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