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Winscott Road is named for early Fort Worth rancher, developer, and hotel owner Winfield Scott (no relation to the famous general of the
same name). Scott was born in Kentucky in 1848 and moved to Tarrant County in 1868. The Winfield Scott Ranch covered over 12,000 acres
in Tarrant, Johnson, and Parker Counties. Scott built and/or owned several hotels and businesses in Fort Worth and constructed Thistle Hill in
Fort Worth as his private residence.

A new two-room brick school building was constructed in 1912 to replace the previous building located at Old Benbrook Road and Winscott
Road. The $3,000 construction cost was financed by bonds. In 1918, a second teacher was added to the school. The school building was
severely damaged by wind storms in 1913 and again in 1923. In 1936, the building was replaced again, this time by a larger, flagstone-
constructed, four room structure with a stage and gymnasium. The $15,000 building was also financed by bonds and was built by V. A. Davis,
who resigned from the school board to bid on the project; the landscaping was performed by the Works Progress Administration. Even

with the larger building, some students had to be taught in the basement of the church next door.

EARLY BUILDINGS AND CHURCHES IN BENBROOK

One of the earliest buildings remaining in Benbrook is the Eddie Brustrum House at 8204 Old Benbrook Road, which was originally constructed
about 1895 as the Methodist parsonage. The Corn House in far southwest Benbrook (11555 Highway 377 South) was built about 1919 by
James Corn, a rancher who owned more than 55,000 acres. John Stevens, for whom Stevens Road is named, was foreman on the Corn Ranch.
M. N. Wallace purchased the "old Benbrook Home" property along Old Benbrook Road in 1921 and built two rock houses. The M. N. Wallace
house at 8216 Old Benbrook Road was built in 1921. The Frank E. Wallace house is located at 8812 Old Benbrook Road and constructed in
1923. Frank E. Wallace was co-owner with M.N. Wallace of Benbrook's general store from 1936 until it was sold in 1941. F. E. Wallace also
ran the post office with M. N. Wallace serving as mail carrier. The N. E. Wallace house at 8216 Old Benbrook Road was torn down in 1986.

The American Legion Paul Mansir Post 297 nearby at 8201 Old Benbrook Road originally was constructed in 1933 as the Benbrook Church of
Christ. The Methodist Church built a new building from 1929 to 1931, in Greek Revival style, with funding from members and from rancher
Cass Edwards.

Mr. Edwards believed that the Building Committee's original plans were too small. The building had a sanctuary upstairs, classrooms in the
basement, and its own electric light plant. Bishop H. A. Boaz officiated at the opening with the Reverend Floyd Thrash serving as pastor. The
building was later used by the Benbrook Pentecostal Baptist Church when the Methodists moved to a new location on Bryant Street in 1957.
The Baptists and two other congregations met in a building erected on a one-acre plot donated by Z Boaz.

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