Fort Worth Heritage Trails - "The Stage Leaves from Here" - Fort Worth, TX
N 32° 45.377 W 097° 19.936
14S E 656228 N 3625500
Fort Worth Heritage Trails sign acknowledging the role of the stagecoach in Fort Worth's history.
Waymark Code: WMFV54
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 12/02/2012
Views: 3
The sign is located on the east side of Main St between 1st & 2nd Streets. It says:
Few images of the American West are more enduring than the stagecoach. On July 18, 1856, the United States Mail Line brought the first stagecoach to Fort Worth on its way to Fort Belknap. The stagecoach stopped at Steel’s Tavern at the present intersection of Bluff & Houston Streets, then headed west. At Fort Belknap, passengers and mail joined the Southern Overland Mail Line on its route connecting the East Coast to San Francisco.
By the 1870s, daily service arrived and departed from Fort Worth’s El Paso Hotel on Main Street. With the arrival of the railroad in 1876, the city became the largest stagecoach terminus in the Southwest. In 1878 the Fort Worth and Yuma stage line was established, providing mail delivery on a "star route" to Yuma, Arizona. The six-horse team pulled the stage 1,560 miles on a 17-day trip, the longest daily stage line in existence at that time.
Heritage Trails 2006
Sponsored by Wells Fargo
Group that erected the marker: Fort Worth Heritage Trails/City of Fort Worth
URL of a web site with more information about the history mentioned on the sign: [Web Link]
Address of where the marker is located. Approximate if necessary:
East side of Main St between 1st & 2nd Streets
Fort Worth, TX USA
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