Village Creek to Kennedale

South of Arlington, in the rolling country drained by Village Creek, a cluster of pioneer settlements grew up around camp meetings, country schoolhouses, and family burying grounds. Out of them came Kennedale, a farming and brick-making town that wasn't formally incorporated until 1947 but had organized a school district more than half a century earlier. This driving loop threads the Village Creek country together: the school district that schooled generations of farm children, the Baptist congregations that baptized new members in nearby creeks and lakes, and the cemeteries — one started by a leading landowner, another by a grieving husband on his own farm — that hold the area's founders. The sites are spread across several miles of changing landscape, where new development is steadily overtaking the old fields, but the markers still trace how a scattering of creekside communities became a town.