10/02/2025
11 Facts You Didn’t Know About Fort Worth 🤔
1. Fort Worth is known as the “City of Cowboys and Culture” and hosts the world’s only twice-daily cattle drive, where real cowhands lead Texas longhorns through the Stockyards National Historic District.
2. The Fort Worth Zoo is consistently ranked as one of the top zoos in the country, with over 7,000 animals.
3. The Fort Worth Stockyards is the last remaining historic stockyard in the U.S., and it was once the largest livestock market in the Southwest.
4. Fort Worth was originally an army outpost established in 1849 to protect settlers from Native American tribes, and remnants of its military past can still be found throughout the city.
5. The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth houses Michelangelo’s only painting in the Americas, 'The Torment of Saint Anthony,' which he created at the age of 12 or 13.
6. Fort Worth is home to the longest-running live rodeo in the world, held every weekend at the Cowtown Coliseum in the Stockyards.
7. Fort Worth’s Sundance Square, a 35-block district downtown, was named after the Sundance Kid, who, along with Butch Cassidy, was known to visit the area.
8. Fort Worth is the headquarters for American Airlines, one of the largest airlines in the world.
9. Fort Worth is home to the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, the only museum in the world dedicated to honoring the women of the American West.
10. Fort Worth’s original nickname, “Queen City of the Prairie,” was given in the 1800s due to its prime location in North Texas, acting as a gateway to the western frontier.
11. During Prohibition, Fort Worth was known as a hotbed for illegal liquor smuggling and speakeasies, with tunnels rumored to run under downtown for transporting booze.