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The 2nd largest city in the Dallas-Fort-Worth-Arlington metropolitan area is Fort Worth City. It is likewise the 5th largest city within the state of Texas and the 17th largest city within the United States of America. Originally, the city of Fort Worth was made as a protective Army outpost. The city overlooks Trinity River and has a heritage of traditional and western designs and architecture.

The history is closely associated with the history of the Texas frontier and the city of Dallas. Major Ripley Arnold founded the new fort site near the Clear and West Forks gathering during the year 1849. He put up a post on the banks of the Trinity and called it Camp Worth honoring William Jenkins Worth, a US Army General, a well-respected veteran of the Mexican-American War. The U.S. officially approved the name "Fort Worth" during 1849. Many pioneers began to reside in the area around Fort Worth even with the Native Americans who were still considered a threat to the community. The Civil War and Reconstruction practically wiped Fort Worth off the map due to money shortages burdened by the people. It gradually revived itself in the 1870's, and shortly, the city opened saloons, general stores, national banks, plus numerous others. Schools likewise opened slowly after the war, and when the cattle trade exploded in the area, the city's economy grew and became called "Cowtown."

People who like going to museums could visit American Airlines C.R. Smith Museum, Amon Carter Museum (provides people a remarkable survey of American art, from the very first landscape painters of the 1830s to contemporary artists of the twentieth century), Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House, Ballet Concerto (presented yearly ever since the year 1983 the "Summer Dance Concert", that has been a free outdoor dance event presented in Fort Worth's Cultural District), Cattle Raisers Museum, Fire Station No. 1, Fort Worth Community Arts Center (features the talents of regional artists in dance, theater, art, music, studio, poetry and opera), Fort Worth Museum of Science and History/Omni Theater (it is home to numerous exciting and interactive exhibits for kids of various ages), Galleries (Artspace 111, Art on the Boulevard, The Firehouse Art Studios and Gallery, Hometown Galleries, Lucky Draw Pottery Gallery and Artisans Studio, Milan Galleries, William Campbell Contemporary Art and Spur Ranch Gallery), ITC Historic Wall (celebrates the African-American warehouse and mercantile district that thrived within the eastern edge of downtown during early Fort Worth), Kimbell Art Museum, and Leonard's Department Store Museum (Fort Worth downtown department store).

Within the city of Fort Worth, there are a lot of businesses who have their headquarters here, comprising Acme Brick, Airforce Airguns, Alcon (US Headquarters), AmeriCredit, American IronHorse, Bell helicopter Textron, Bell/Agusta Aerospace Company, Ben E. Keith, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp., Consolidated Robotics, Cash American International, Coria Laboratories, Ltd., Cawley, Gillespie & Assoc., and Dickies.