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HISTORY
Cobblestone Square is a small neighborhood eight miles east of the Fort Worth Central Business District, and situated between I-30 and John T. White Road. It is included in the 1884 Wm. Linn Survey and the 1880 John Thresher Survey.
One of the early settlers in the area, around 1908, was L.B. Price, who kept area land in the family until J.D. Price began developing it as a residential subdivision in 1969. Another landowner in the area was G.W. Ratliff, whose family maintained property from 1915 to 1977
One of the main streets bordering the east side of Cobblestone Square was named after Jacob Cooke, who established a camp and trading post in 1870 for teamsters traveling west from Johnson's Station, a settlement later renamed Arlington. The teamsters would stop at this ten acre campground before proceeding north to Birdville (now Haltom City) then west to acquire buffalo hides for later sale in Dallas. The trail these wagons followed later became known as Cooke's Lane.
John T. White Road, at the northern boundary of Cobblestone Square was named for the 1929 superintendent of the Fort Worth School District. John T. White was born in Keller. Ray Rothwell Development Inc. developed much of Cobblestone Square. |