Site of Mosier Valley School

The Handbook of Texas adds what happened around the school. Mosier Valley's Black residents were allowed to elect a trustee to the district board from 1884 to 1904, and John Calhoun Parker's syrup mill, begun about 1900, drew wide custom. In 1960 the planned airport led Fort Worth to extend its limits east in a strip that took in the valley. By the early 1990s about 150 residents remained among gravel pits and machine shops, many still on well water and septic tanks, and a six-lane highway, Trinity Boulevard, was planned through the community.

What the plaque says

Site of Mosier Valley School In 1870, former slaves Robert and Dilsie Johnson received a 40-acre tract of land here as a wedding gift from plantation owner Lucy Lee. Soon other freedmen settled in Mosier Valley, and in 1883 a community school was organized. A schoolhouse, built at this site about 1924, served as a focal point for the surrounding area. It was replaced by a brick structure in 1953. Mosier Valley students were integrated in 1969. Today the site serves as a reminder of the area's earliest citizens and as a symbol of the community's rich heritage. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 13 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 — 13 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 — 15 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 — 15 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

• Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — steps away
• Sloan-Journey Expedition of 1838 — 1.9 mi
• Site of Bird's Fort — 1.9 mi
• Arwine Cemetery — 2.1 mi