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The area of Texas called the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex,
usually shortened to D-FW, exists where it is for only one reason: the Trinity River.
Dallas and Ft. Worth are connected by 50 winding miles of the Trinity River.
The city of Dallas began as a trading post in 1841 when John Neeley Bryan built his cabin, still preserved in Dallas today, to provide supplies to pioneers and Native Americans. Eight years later, the U.S. government built a fort 30 miles away on a high bluff overlooking the Trinity River, an outpost that eventually became the city of Ft. Worth.
The area of Texas called the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex,
usually shortened to D-FW, exists where it is for only one reason: the Trinity River.
Dallas and Ft. Worth are connected by 50 winding miles of the Trinity River.
The city of Dallas began as a trading post in 1841 when John Neeley Bryan built his cabin, still preserved in Dallas today, to provide supplies to pioneers and Native Americans. Eight years later, the U.S. government built a fort 30 miles away on a high bluff overlooking the Trinity River, an outpost that eventually became the city of Ft. Worth.
The Great Trinity Forest is the largest urban hardwood forest in the U.S.
Several locations along the river have large forests, with abundant wildlife. The largest of these is the Great
Trinity Forest – at 10,000 acres it is estimated to be the largest urban bottomland hardwood forest in America.
Read more about the Great Trinity Forest HERE.
The Trinity River is the longest river within a single continental U.S. state
and is the longest river whose watershed is fully contained within Texas’ borders. The Trinity River supplies drinking
water for half the 30 million residents in Texas, a population that is approximately equal to all of New England.
Nature abounds here.
Because the land is very flat in this part of Texas, when the river floods, as it does in most springs, the river goes wide.
This means that normal human development of buildings stays away from the river. As a result, nature abounds here.
