Previous to the visible enchantment of Anglo settlers, monumental herds of buffalo and customers of the Wichita, Caddo, Comanche and Lipan Apache Indian tribes roamed the Benbrook location. Archeologists approximate that the realm has been inhabited for some 11,000 a number of years. Indian tribes discover the an identical environmental issues as modern-day communities, with the accessibility of a sufficient consuming water supply staying a essential fear. Unquestionably, the merger of the Very clear Fork-Trinity River and Mary’s Creek outfitted these sorts of a useful resource of consuming water to tribes as they handed via the realm on searching expeditions.
Anglos to start with settled the Benbrook place, element of the Peters’ Colony began by the Republic of Texas, within the 1850s. W.S. Peters of Kentucky was granted a deal to herald 250 households for each 12 months by delivering 320 acres freed from cost to members of the family grownup males and 160 acres to explicit particular person immigrants, plus a completely free cabin, seed and musket balls.
A division of the “Earlier Chisholm Path” evidently handed by means of the area, crossing Mary’s Creek at Earlier Rawhide Crossing within the space of the prevailing Z.Boaz Park, and served as a route to remain away from the important thing path route by means of downtown Fort Value. A department path, known as the Intensive Path or Cleburne Slice-Off, extended from Raw Disguise Crossing to Cleburne and decreased the holiday by 13 miles.
In 1876, native resident James M. Benbrook requested for the Texas & Pacific Railroad to position a rail station collectively Mary’s Creek near Miranda because the railroad ran west out of Fort Worth. The road was finalized to Benbrook in Might 1880 and the station was named after Benbrook Station by the railroad.
By the convert of the Century, a few of the very first transportation channels had been established up which are nonetheless in use these days, as proven on a U.S. survey from 1894. The Texas and Pacific Railroad is presently run by Union Pacific and travels alongside Mary’s and Walnut Creeks.
The main settlement of Benbrook, discovered inside of a four-block space shut to the railroad station, was located subsequent to the present junction of Interstate Freeway 20 and U.S. Freeway 377 alongside Aledo Rd. The settlement was arrived at from the east through the current Aged Benbrook Freeway and Range Foundry Road (now termed Vickery). Winscott-Plover Freeway prolonged south alongside its present path to Dutch Division, now sunken by Benbrook Lake. A road led east from Winscott-Plover Freeway near the prevailing Mercedes Street to cross the Obvious Fork. Remnants of this county highway are even now obvious on undeveloped spot north of Timber Creek.