Stop Six, Fort Worth, Texas

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Stop Six is a neighborhood in south-east Fort Worth, Texas (USA).

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Stop Six, a mostly African-American neighborhood, [1] is known for its state championship high school basketball team, Dunbar High, in 1993, 2002, and 2006. [2] The neighborhood's name comes from the fact that it was once the sixth stop without an otherwise identifying landmark on the Northern Texas Traction Co. Interurban electric streetcar system that ran between Fort Worth and Dallas.

History

Circa 1896, Amanda Davis, the first African-American to live in the area, [3] paid a white man and obtained 1-acre (0.40 ha) of land. [4] Davis built a cabin on her property. [3] The area for a period was called Cowanville, after a couple who purchased a house in the area in 1902, [4] Alonzo and Sarah Cowan. The Brockman and Stalcup families also became a part of the community. Marcia Melton of Texas Christian University Magazine characterized Stop Six in its initial period as "a community of small farms and homesteads". [3]

By the 1920s the area's layout had developed. [4]

Cityscape

Berry Street, Miller Street, Rosedale Street, and Interstate 820 (Loop 820) form the boundaries of Stop Six. [3] Polytechnic Heights is on the other side of Village Creek. [4]

According to Melton, the community "still retains its rural flavor." [3]

Bunche-Ellington, Carver Heights, Ramey Place, Stop Six Sunrise Edition, and Village Creek are communities within the Stop Six area. [3]

Education

Stop Six is part of the Fort Worth ISD and has several public schools. [5] The district operates Dunbar High School, two middle schools, five elementary schools, and one alternative school. Stop Six's Maudrie M. Walton Elementary School was featured in the 2002 PBS documentary A Tale of Two Schools . [6]

A school developed as Stop Six formed, and it was known initially as the Prairie Chapel Colored School. The Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church supported the school in its earliest days, and it became a part of the Sagamore Hill School District. The school moved into a wooden building, as of 2008 next to Dunbar 6th Grade Center, in 1925, with the school district paying $5,000 to have the building constructed. Area residents spent $300 to fund the construction of the school, and the Rosenwald Foundation gave $1,000 more. In the 1930s, the area became a part of the Fort Worth school district. The building was later known as Dunbar Middle School. In February 2008, the former school became the Stop Six Heritage Center. [4]

Government and infrastructure

The JPS Health Center Stop Six - Walter B. Barbour of the JPS Health Network (Tarrant County Hospital District) is in Stop Six. [7] It includes behavioral and dental services. [8] [9]

Religion

In 1878 the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church was constructed. [4]

Notable residents

See also

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  5. ↑ "Historic Stop Six Initiative" (PDF). Fort Worth Independent School District. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
  6. ↑ "A Tale of Two Schools: The Documentary – Transcript". PBS . Retrieved November 2, 2022.
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