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 Seats for Forklifts Fort Worth - Fort Worth, the fifth largest city in Texas state and the 17th largest city in the United States, is the 2nd biggest cultural and economic center of the Dallas-Fort-Worth-Arlington metropolitan area. Initially built as a protective Army outpost which overlooks the Trinity River, the city of Fort Worth has a western heritage with traditional architecture and designs.
The history is closely associated with the history of the Texas frontier and the city of Dallas. Major Ripley Arnold established the new fort site near the Clear and West Forks gathering in the year 1849. He put up a post on the banks of the Trinity and named it Camp Worth honoring William Jenkins Worth, a US Army General, a well-respected veteran of the Mexican-American War. The United States officially approved the name "Fort Worth" during the year 1894. Various pioneers started to reside in the area around Fort Worth even with the Native Americans who were still considered a threat to the community. The Civil War and Reconstruction almost wiped Fort Worth off the map due to money shortages burdened by the people. It gradually revived itself in the 1870's, and soon, the city opened national banks, saloons, general stores, plus numerous others. Schools also opened gradually after the war, and when the cattle business exploded in the area, the city's financial system grew and became referred to as "Cowtown."
Museum buffs may want to look at American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum, Amon Carter Museum (provides visitors a remarkable survey of American art, from the first landscape painters of the 1830s to modern artists of the twentieth century), Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House, Ballet Concerto (presented every year ever since the year 1983 the "Summer Dance Concert", that has been an outdoor dance event presented free of charge in Fort Worth's Cultural District), Fire Station No. 1, Cattle Raisers Museum, Fort Worth Community Arts Center (features regional artists' talents in theatre, dance, art, music, studio, poetry and opera), Fort Worth Museum of Science and History/Omni Theater (it is home to several interactive and exciting exhibits for children of various ages), Galleries (Art on the Boulevard, Artspace 111, The Firehouse Art Studios and Gallery, Hometown Galleries, Lucky Draw Pottery Gallery and Artisans Studio, Milan Galleries, William Campbell Contemporary Art and Spur Ranch Gallery), ITC Historic Wall (celebrates the African-American warehouse and mercantile district that thrived in the eastern edge of downtown during early Fort Worth), Kimbell Art Museum, and Leonard's Department Store Museum (department store in downtown Fort Worth).
Within the city of Fort Worth, there are numerous businesses who have their head office here, comprising Acme Brick, Airforce Airguns, Alcon (US Headquarters), American IronHorse, AmeriCredit, Bell/Agusta Aerospace Company, Bell Helicopter Textron, Ben E. Keith, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Cash America International, Consolidated Robotics, Cawley, Coria laboratories, Ltd., Dickies and Gillespies & Assoc.
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