HISTORY
The Bentley Village neighborhood is located on the
eastern edge of Fort Worth, approximately ten miles from the Central Business District.
The area is included in three early surveys; the 1877 E. Andes Survey, the 1862
Joel L. Hallum Survey and the 1859 D.C. Harrison Survey. The neighborhood is bordered
on the north by the West Fork of the Trinity River, the east by Village Creek,
the south by I-30, and the west by Eastchase Parkway.
Two of the main streets in this neighborhood are
John T. White Blvd. and Randol Mill Road. John T. White Blvd. was named after the
1929 superintendent of the Fort Worth Public Schools. Randol Mill Road passed the
mill owned by W.A. Randol. The mill was the first in the area and was built by Archibald
Leonard, one of the earliest settlers in Fort Worth. The mill was burned down in 1860
during a general unrest about abolition. It was rebuilt in 1862 and eventually was
purchased by Randol in 1872. The mill operated until 1922 and finally burned down for
good in 1933.
Village Creek on the eastern edge of Bentley Village
was the scene of a battle in 1841 between a detachment of solders led by General E.H.
Tarrant and including Col. W.G. Cooke and a tribe of Comanche Indians. Cooke and
Tarrant had counties named for them when Texas became a state.
An early owner of land in this area was E.O. Boaz,
a descendent of Samuel Boaz, a settler in Birdville in 1859. The Village Community
Development Company developed this neighborhood in 1975.
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