Inventory of records of Tarrant County housed in the Tarrant County courthouse in Fort Worth. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Volume One describes the records of the Commissioners' Court, County Judge, Personnel Department, County Clerk, County Treasurer, Tax Assessor-Collector, County Auditor, Purchasing Agent, Sheriff, Constable, Medical Examiner, County Fire Marshal, County Superintendent of Schools, Department of Planning and Management, and County Surveyor. Also provides a list of Tarrant County records and an index.
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Inventory of records of Tarrant County housed in the Tarrant County courthouse in Fort Worth. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Volume One describes the records of the Commissioners' Court, County Judge, Personnel Department, County Clerk, County Treasurer, Tax Assessor-Collector, County Auditor, Purchasing Agent, Sheriff, Constable, Medical Examiner, County Fire Marshal, County Superintendent of Schools, Department of Planning and Management, and County Surveyor. Also provides a list of Tarrant County records and an index.
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Volume 1 of 2; xiv, 309 p. map; 28 cm.
Notes
The Texas County Records Inventory Project, headquartered at North Texas State University, Denton, is a county-by-county survey of all records germane to the operation of county government located in county courthouses and other storage facilities.
This book is part of the following collections of related materials.
Rare Book and Texana Collections
These materials include a 1633 map, America Noviter Delineata; H. K. Yoakum's History of Texas, and Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana, in the year 1852 by Randolph B. Marcy.
This ambitious project began in 1936 under the auspices of the Work Projects Administration (WPA) and continued until 1942, producing 24 inventories of Texas county archives.
Riney, James E.; Fortin, Maurice G.; Ferrier, Douglas M.; Sall, Larry; DeBoe, David C.; Thomson, Robert et al.Inventory of county records, Tarrant County courthouse, Fort Worth, Texas, Volume 1,
book,
1977;
Denton, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth25179/:
accessed April 26, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.