Founders Plaza Traditional Cache
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The vision for Founders Plaza is to create a central gathering place for community celebrations. The goal is to provide 50 free concerts annually that celebrate diversity, enrich family values and enhance community spirit through a shared appreciation of the performing arts. The Levitt Pavilion, an outdoor amphitheater, will serve as the focal point. The name of Founder's Plaza celebrates the location of the park being within the boundaries of the original founding of the city of Arlington.
White settlement in the Arlington area dates back at least to the 1840s. After the May 24, 1841 battle between General Edward H. Tarrant (Tarrant County is named for him) and Native Americans of the Village Creek settlement, a trading post was established at Marrow Bone Spring in present-day Arlington. The rich soil of the area attracted farmers, and several agriculture-related businesses were well established by the late nineteenth century.
Arlington was founded in 1876 along the Texas and Pacific Railroad. The city was planned as a one-mile square bordered on each side by streets named: North, South, East, and West. The city was named after General Robert E. Lee's Arlington House (in present-day Arlington County, Virginia). Arlington grew as a cotton-ginning and farming center, and incorporated in 1884. The city could boast of water, electricity, natural gas, and telephone services by 1910, along with a public school system. By 1925 the population was estimated at 3,031, and it grew to over four thousand before World War II.
Large-scale industrialization began in 1954 with the arrival of a General Motors assembly plant. Automotive and aerospace development gave the city one of the nation's greatest population growth rates between 1950 and 1990. Arlington became one of the "boomburbs," the extremely fast-growing suburbs of the post-World War II era. U.S. Census Bureau population figures for the city tell the story: 7,692 (1950), 90,229 (1970), 261,721 (1990), and 359,467 (2004 estimate).
Founders Plaza celebrates the original founding of the city with a park located within the original city borders. In conjunction with the park is the location of the Levitt Pavillion of Arlington. This organization provides free entertainment to the community.
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