Fort Worth Texas Bed and Breakfast Directory - A Fort Worth Texas Hotels Alternative

	About Fort Worth, Texas....
	MD Resort Bed & Breakfast MD Resort North Texas Bed and Breakfast Inn is a Texas guest ranch, located in the Dallas Fort Worth Texas Metroplex.

	The Texas White House You've come to the right place! Whether it's the culture of the Kimbell, the Amon Carter, the Bass Performance Hall and the Cowgirl Hall of Fame or the nightlife of Sundance Square and the Stockyards,
	Etta's Place - A Sundance Inn A bed and breakfast inn located in Sundance Square, Etta's Place captures the feel of a southern home and a prestigious private club.
	Lockheart Gables Romantic B&B Lockheart Gables Romantic Bed and Breakfast located in Fort Worth, Texas, is the choice for couples needing lodging accommodations, planning their honeymoon, celebrating
	Azalea Plantation Bed and Breakfast Quite a welcome surprise ... a stately plantation style home reminiscent of Tara, nestled among almost two acres of majestic oaks and magnolias.

About Fort Worth, Texas

Fort Worth is the fifth-largest city in the state of Texas and the 19th-largest in the United States. Located in the south of the country, Fort Worth is also large in geographic area as it covers almost 300 square miles and is the county seat of Tarrant County—the 18th most populous county in the country. A small portion of the city extends into Denton County as well.

As of the 2000 U.S. Census, Fort Worth population was 534,694 (a 2005 Census estimate placed the population at 624,067). The city is the second-largest cultural and economic center of the Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area (colloquially referred to as DFW Metroplex), which is the largest metropolitan area in Texas as well as the entire South, and the fourth-largest in the United States with a population of 5.7 million in 12 counties.

Fort Worth was founded as a military camp in 1849, named after General William Jenkins Worth. Today, the city is portrayed as more old-fashioned and laid-back than its neighbor, Dallas. Known as "Cowtown" for its roots as a cattle drive terminus, Fort Worth bills itself as "Where the West begins" and still celebrates its colorful Western and Southern heritage today.

In 1849, during the closure of the Mexican-American War, Major Ripley Arnold established a fort, named in honor of General William Jenkins Worth near a high bluff where the West Fork and Clear Fork of the Trinity River merge together. The fort was flooded the first year and was moved to the top of the bluff where the courthouse sits now. The fort was established to protect 19th century settlers from Indian attacks. It grew into a bustling town when it became a stop along the legendary Chisholm Trail, the dusty path where millions of cattle were driven North to market. Fort Worth became the center of the cattle drives, and later, the ranching industry. The heyday of the cattle drives was the wild era of "Hell's Half Acre," [1] an area of town filled with gambling parlors, saloons and dance halls. During the Civil War, the town suffered and the population dwindled. However, Fort Worth recovered quickly during Reconstruction and once again was a bustling population center. In 1876, the Texas & Pacific Railway connected to Fort Worth and transformed the Fort Worth Stockyards into a premier livestock center. When oil began to gush in West Texas, Fort Worth was at the center of the wheeling and dealing.

In 2000, a tornado of F-2 classification smashed through downtown, tearing many buildings, including the Bank One tower, into shreds and scrap metal. The Bank One tower has been renovated and sold, most of which sold as condominiums.