Texas History
Today’s Tarrant County Tuesday takes us West to an enchanted stretch of S. FM 4 called Lone Camp in Palo Pinto County. This might be the most challenging article I’ve written in the eight years with CandysDirt.com. (Yeah, Candy, where’s my anniversary gift?) This is a story of a property that doesn’t fit cleanly in…
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Only four families have owned the Victorian mansion on an acre at the corner of Lamar Street and Columbia Street in Weatherford, and now some history-loving buyer will be the fifth. The home, which sits at 304 S Lamar St., was first home to John D. Baker, a prominent Weatherford resident who started construction on…
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Sometimes (OK, many times) we get some pretty cool stuff sent our way. Earlier this week, someone shot us a new interactive map that tells you what Native American tribes lived on the land where your house (or business, for that matter) sits. We noodled with it a bit in between deadlines, and it seems…
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