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Arlington Heights, Fort Worth, Texas

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Neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas

Postcard of a pavilion and Lake Como in Arlington Heights, 1907

Arlington Heights is a neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas.

A Denver, Colorado-originating promoter named H. B. Chamberlain bought 2,000 acres (810 ha) of land from a Chicago financier named Tom Hurley and Robert McCart. He attempted to develop Arlington Heights, but a hotel he built, Ye Arlington Inn, burned in 1894, and he died in a bicycle accident in London. Arlington Heights was developed after the United States moved military personnel to the surrounding area in World War I.

Joyce E. Williams, a sociologist who wrote Black Community Control: A Study of Transition in a Texas Ghetto, wrote that almost all Lake Como women worked in Arlington Heights. Those women referred to it as "Little California", a reference to a fantasy idea of the state of California.

Education

Arlington Heights High School

The Fort Worth Independent School District serves Arlington Heights. North Hi-Mount Elementary School serves Arlington Heights. Arlington Heights High School is in the community.

References

  1. Ladd, Sweetie (1999). Sweetie Ladd's Historic Fort Worth. Texas Christian University Press. p. 30. ISBN 0875651968.
  2. ^ George, Juliet (2010). Fort Worth's Arlington Heights (Images of America). Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 0738578932.

External links

32°44′11″N 97°22′58″W / 32.73639°N 97.38278°W / 32.73639; -97.38278


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