Thank Boaz Traditional Cache
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Located in South Z Boaz Park. I think this is a strange name for a park. Some history of the area below.
A branch of the "Old Chisholm Trail" apparently passed through the area, crossing Mary's Creek at Old Rawhide Crossing in the area of the present Z.Boaz Park, and served as a route to avoid the main trail route through downtown Fort Worth. A branch trail, known the Long Trail or Cleburne Cut-Off, extended from Raw Hide Crossing to Cleburne and shortened the trip by 13 miles. The Butterfield Stage Line followed the Old Chisholm Trail and was headquartered in Bowie, Texas. An old water well used to water the horses was located on the Coder farm. The Fort Worth-El Paso Mail Route Stage Line also ran along Mary's Creek on its way west (1876-1881), and was reportedly robbed several times in the vicinity of Miranda. A gang known as the "Bold Banditti" (including Sam Bass) was responsible for many of these crimes and they often took refuge in "Hell's Half Acre" on what is now the site of the Tarrant County Convention Center in downtown Fort Worth. Bass reported robbed the Cleburne-Fort Worth stage at Mary's Creek on November 1877 and the Weatherford-Fort Worth stage on January 26, 1878.20 Fleming (Slim) Doggett robbed the Granbury Stage near Benbrook, and was later slain by Texas Rangers on the H.C. Stephens farm.
The Peter Boaz family arrived in Birdville from Kentucky in 1873 and the family subsequently moved to Benbrook in 1878. Among Peter and Martha's nine children were Will N. Boaz, Hiram Abiff Boaz, Ex Boaz and Z Boaz. Hiram Boaz reportedly converted at one of the Old Rawhide Camp Meetings, became one of the early leaders of the Methodist Church in Benbrook and subsequently became a Methodist Bishop in 1922 and president of both Polytechnic College in Fort Worth (later known as Texas Wesleyan) and Southern Methodist University in Dallas. After Peter Boaz's death in 1882, his widow married James M. Benbrook. J.A. Childers, ranch foreman for W.J. Boaz's 3,000-acre ranch, and later constable and county commissioner, built his home on Old Benbrook Road during the 1870s. Z Boaz donated 136 acres of land to the City of Fort Worth as a public park in 1928, only because Benbrook did not have a municipal government or park department at that time. Z Boaz died in 1935 and is buried in the Benbrook Cemetery along with his wife, Teck who died in 1970, and an infant son, Thank, who died in 1898.
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