Barron Field

The field outlived its use as a school for pilots by serving as a school for children. The Handbook of Texas says that after the war the Barron munitions building was a schoolhouse for African American children in Everman, and that building earned the Texas Historical Commission marker in 1976. The cadets who trained here were first Canadians of the Royal Flying Corps, and the camp stood half a mile west of Everman, a railroad town founded in 1904. Its arrival lifted the local economy and brought new residents.

What the plaque says

Barron Field One of three World War I fight training centers in the Ft. Worth area, Taliaferro Field No. 2 was built on this site in Nov. 1917. First used by Canadian cadets, it was occupied in April 1918 by American military units. In May, the facility was renamed Barron Field for Cadet Robert J. Barron, who was killed at another flying school. Covering over 600 acres, the camp housed as many as 150 officers and 900 enlisted men. Barron Field sent six Air Squadrons to France before the war ended, Nov. 11, 1918. The training facility closed in 1921, and today only the munitions building remains. (1976)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 8.9 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 9.2 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• Tarrant County Courthouse — 9.3 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 12 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.

More markers nearby

• Everman Cemetery — 2.2 mi
• Grace Lutheran Church — 3.9 mi
• Crowley Cemetery — 4.4 mi
• Southwest Baptist Theological Seminary — 4.7 mi