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Fort Worth life as reported by the Daily Fort Worth Standard

The Free-for-All to Make Schools Free for All

Posted on August 29, 2020 by hometown

In the middle of the nineteenth century as a civilian settlement grew up around the Army’s Fort Worth those early settlers were building a city from scratch. They needed everything. Including education for their children. John Peter Smith is said … Continue reading →

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