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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.
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