White Lake Hills Neighborhood Assn

I would like to start a thread on the history of the WLH area. It could be something that expanded into the eastside in total or just the dirt under our houses. How about it?

That is a great idea.  Look under "our information" on this website.  You will see some of our history.  There are many stories about the White Lake Dairy, the outlaws that roamed Randol Mill, and the day they brought up the body on the Trinity River.  Today, we have the White Lake Silo next to the Waffle house.  What do you know and want to share?

 Earlier this year I aquired the mapsco lost maps of Fort Worth CD. An 1894 map of Ft. Worth labeled Sam's showed areas to the east of the Trinity river in the vicinity of Rimmic and the landfill to be Judge Albright's Farm. I later learned that he had come to Ft. Worth from the Dakota territory where he was a supreme court justice of the Dakota territory. He practiced law in Ft Worth and married a widow who owned a large tract of land in Poly. Both were Methodists. I do not know if the widow and her deceased husband owned the land originally or not.

 Albright had enough pull to get the original bridge over the trinity built. There was a county bond in the late 1800's that paid for it. It has been called in the literature of the internet Albright's bridge.

 I went to the historical society downtown and saw his marriage license and also saw the input on where he was burried. Don't know what happened to the property after his death.

 Randol Mill road at the time before the bridge did not exist. 

 Would anyone be interested to go to the basement of the court house and do a title search for the original owners of the land west of woodhaven blvd and east of the trinity ?