Historic Stop Six: Sunrise Edition (Fort Worth,Texas)

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Historic Stop Six: Sunrise Edition is a district of early 20th century vernacular structures, which celebrates the history and culture of the streetcar development of Fort Worth. Stop Six was a pastoral community along the Fort Worth to Dallas Interurban, originally known as Cowanville. In the Sunrise Edition, as early as 1924, the landscape retained a rural character that has historically been occupied, shaped and modified by African American families. The district continues to possess a significant linkage to land use, vegetation, natural features, roads and structures. The rural landscapes seen throughout the district, especially in the southern portion reflect the day-to-day occupational activities of families who engaged in various types of agriculture and traditional work such as farming.

The large acreage and a proportionately small number of structures is what differentiate the rural historic landscapes from the historic structures. There are two periods of significant development within the neighborhood: the era of the streetcar pre WWII, approximately 1920-1940 and 1950-1970 suburbanization.