The Name & the Bombers: White Settlement

White Settlement wears its frontier origin in its blunt name — it was the white homesteaders' cluster west of Fort Worth, set apart from the Native communities nearby. This tour traces the town across two very different eras. First come the pioneers: a Scottish-born judge's stone house that doubled as a stagecoach stop and post office, and a young Kentuckian's tiny log cabin, saved and reassembled by a local historical society. Then comes the era that remade the place — World War II, when a colossal aircraft plant rose at the edge of town and began turning out heavy bombers by the thousand. The runways of the airfield beside it would consume some of that older landscape, and the base that grew here became a Cold War symbol of American air power. From log cabin to Liberator bomber in a single short drive, White Settlement holds both Texases at once.