TCU Marks Fort Worth Centennial

A plaque was unveiled yesterday near the spot where TCU leased its first space in Fort Worth in 1910 outside the Tarrant County Courthouse at Commerce and East Weatherford, the intersection where TCU first set up shop in Fort Worth on September 14th in 1910. After a year in that leased space, the school moved to its current location about five miles away. TCU's roots in Cowtown actually date to 1869 when the founding Clark brothers opened a small school a few blocks north of what would later come to be known as Hell's Half Acre, the red-light district frequented by drovers during Fort Worth's hey-day as a cattle town. In 1873, the school moved 40 miles southwest to Thorp Spring in Hood County and then, in 1895, to Waco. Fifteen years later, a fire destroyed much of the Waco campus, paving the way for TCU's return to Fort Worth a century ago.