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Fort Worth Files

The Fort Worth Files features stories, secrets and even some surprises about our favorite city.

• Mother Nature’s sculpture stands at busy crossroads

• Masterpieces for miles: The city’s hidden exhibit

• Say hola to the ‘Vaquero de Fort Worth’

• Crown jewel: How cowboy hats became a Fort Worth icon

• A beacon of light shines again: A little more lore on New City Hall

• 25 years later: Remembering the tornado that reshaped Fort Worth

• Who’s that? And why is this building named for them?

• ‘A love note to Fort Worth’: The storied history of New City Hall

• Hotel Texas was a welcoming site before a day of tragedy

• Fated plate: Water employee’s license tag holds historic connection

• Take a stroll through Fort Worth’s bungalow-style fire stations

• From Victorian roots to modern skyline: City halls through time

• Paved with purpose, brick by brick

• Meet the man who put Fort Worth on the map

• Fort Worth's forgotten subway

• A castle in Cowtown: The Knights of Pythias Hall

• Why Fort Worth is known by so many names

• Pioneers Rest Cemetery: Fort Worth’s oldest cemetery

• Video: Why are Fort Worth Fire trucks painted white?

• The house where heroes train — and a mayor’s name lives on

• Pioneered paths: Celebrating Fort Worth Police’s trailblazing women