General Edward H. Tarrant

The creek had people on it before the fight the plaque describes. The Handbook of Texas says a series of villages along it housed Caddo, Cherokee and Tonkawa people and served as a stronghold against settlers from the east and Comanches from the west. Two Republic of Texas expeditions in 1838 failed to find the towns. After the 1841 attack their secure position was compromised, and a treaty in September 1843 opened the region to settlement and sent the Village Creek tribes to a reservation on the upper Brazos. Much of the battlefield now lies under Lake Arlington.

What the plaque says

General Edward H. Tarrant In this vicinity May 24, 1841 General Edward H. Tarrant with 70 men attacked several indian villages situated along a creek (now called Village Creek) and recovered many horses and much stolen plunder. 12 Indians were killed and many wounded. Of the Texans Captain John B. Denton was killed. Captains Henry Stout and Griffin were wounded.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 8.8 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 — 10 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.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 11 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.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 11 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.

More markers nearby

• Handley Cemetery — 1.8 mi
• Top O' Hill Terrace — 2.0 mi
• Site of Fort Worth-Dallas Interurban — 2.0 mi
• Dalworthington Gardens — 2.5 mi