HISTORY
Meadows West and Bellaire Park
North are nestled along the Clear Fork of the Trinity River.
Meadows West is closer to I-20 while Bellaire Park North follows
the river to the south, below the hills of Mont Del and City
View. They are approximately seven to eight miles west, southwest
of the Fort Worth Central Business District. They are included
in the 1855 and 1858 James Rogers Survey, the 1856 James Spillman
Survey and the 1874 John F. Heath Survey.
Early landowners in the area
included ranchers E.G. Rall, since 1917, and Cass Overton Edwards,
in 1926, and businessman H.F. Stute since 1926.
Rall's large ranch was broken
up and sold in 1974 and is now part of several neighborhoods
including Meadows West and Mira Vista.
Edwards, whose ranch land extended
almost all the way to downtown Fort Worth and whose family owns
the Cassco Land Company, was instrumental in developing his ranch
lands in to the neighborhoods of Tanglewood and Overton Park
during the 1950's and 1960's.
Stute was founder of the Country
Valley Development Company in 1965. The Meadows West Corporation
bought the land in 1976, and began developing the neighborhood
in 1979.
Bellaire Park North lies south
of Meadows West and began to take shape in 1985. The development
was begun by James Harris, but was sold to Perry Homes, of Houston,
in 1991.
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