Description: A BRIEF HISTORY OF FORNEY, TEXAS By Jerry M. Flook* Forney, Kaufman County, Texas, is situated on black clay prairies drained by the East Fork of the Trinity River. It lies within a region of the state called the "Three Forks of the Trinity" when exploration by the white man began here in the late
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A BRIEF HISTORY OF FORNEY, TEXAS By Jerry M. Flook*
Forney, Kaufman County, Texas, is situated on black clay prairies drained by the East Fork of the Trinity River . It lies within a region of the state called the “Three Forks of the Trinity” when exploration by the white man began here in the late 1830s. Prior to that time these blackland prairies were occupied mainly by herds of bison and Spanish horses, or mustangs. These animals have lent their names to the two creeks running through town-Big Buffalo Creek and Mustang Creek . The grasslands were also the
The first settlers in the area of present-day Forney did not began to arrive until about 1846, well after the Indians had been pushed west of Fort Worth. By that time much of the land had already been granted in large “league and labor” tracts to citizens of the Republic of Texas, most of whom never saw, much less lived upon, that land. The land that was not thus taken was available as headrights, 320 acres for single men and 640 acres for married men, provided they built a cabin and improved a small portio