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1841. General Edward H. Tarrant leads the Battle of Village Creek, killing many Native American people who called Village Creek their home. Captain Jonathan Bird creates Bird's Fort on the north side of present-day Arlington, Anglo-Americans' first attempt to settle in north Texas.
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The first non-Indian settlement here dates to the 1840s. Indeed, Arlington began as the failed Bird's Fort, evolving into the site of a Texas Ranger post (Johnson Station) authorized by Republic President Sam Houston to serve as a dividing line between settlers and a collection of Indian tribes driven to the area by American westward expansion.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Arlington, Texas, USA. Prior to 20th century. 1542 – Spanish explorers make camp in an Indian Village named Guasco at current-day Dottie Lynn Pkwy. [1]
- 1519-1543
- 1821-1836
- 1684-1689
- 1690-1821
The first attempted Anglo settlement involving newly arriving Texans came with an 1841 expedition led by Major Jonathan Bird to establish a fort on a small oxbow pond adjoining the Trinity River. Bird’s Fort failed for a variety of reasons including conflicts with Native Americans.
History. European settlement in the Arlington area dates back at least to the 1840s. After the May 24, 1841 battle between Texas General Edward H. Tarrant and Native Americans of the Village Creek settlement, a trading post was established at Marrow Bone Spring in present-day Arlington (historical marker at 32°42.136′N 97°6.772′W ). [10] .
Welcome to Arlington, a community that today ranks among the 48 most populous cities in the country, but which began life as a struggling and besieged frontier fort established when Texas was still a republic.
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3 days ago · Arlington, city, Tarrant county, northern Texas, U.S., between Fort Worth (west) and Grand Prairie and Dallas (east). Caddo Indians, the first known settlers in the region, were the victims of westward expansion. An early white settlement (1840), on an Indian council site, was called Bird’s Fort.
