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Stop Six is a neighborhood in south-eastFort Worth, Texas (USA).
Stop Six, a mostlyAfrican-American neighborhood,[1] is known for Dunbar High, whose basketball team won the high school state championship in 1993, 2002, and 2006.[2] The neighborhood's name comes from the fact that it was once the sixth stop without an otherwise identifying landmark on theNorthern Texas Traction Co. Interurban electric streetcar system that ran betweenFort Worth andDallas.
Circa 1896, Amanda Davis, the first African-American to live in the area,[3] paid a white man and obtained 1-acre (0.40 ha) of land.[4] Davis built a cabin on her property.[3] The area for a period was called Cowanville, after a couple who purchased a house in the area in 1902,[4] Alonzo and Sarah Cowan. The Brockman and Stalcup families also became a part of the community. Marcia Melton ofTexas Christian University Magazine characterized Stop Six in its initial period as "a community of small farms and homesteads".[3]
By the 1920s the area's layout had developed.[4]
Berry Street, Miller Street, Rosedale Street, andInterstate 820 (Loop 820) form the boundaries of Stop Six.[3]Polytechnic Heights is on the other side of Village Creek.[4]
According to Melton, the community "still retains its rural flavor."[3]
Bunche-Ellington, Carver Heights, Ramey Place, Stop Six Sunrise Edition, and Village Creek are communities within the Stop Six area.[3]
Stop Six is part of theFort Worth ISD and has several public schools.[5] The district operatesDunbar High School, two middle schools, five elementary schools, and one alternative school. Stop Six'sMaudrie M. Walton Elementary School was featured in the 2002PBS documentaryA Tale of Two Schools.[6]
A school developed as Stop Six formed, and it was known initially as the Prairie Chapel Colored School. The Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church supported the school in its earliest days, and it became a part of the Sagamore Hill School District. The school moved into a wooden building, as of 2008 next to Dunbar 6th Grade Center, in 1925, with the school district paying $5,000 to have the building constructed. Area residents spent $300 to fund the construction of the school, and theRosenwald Foundation gave $1,000 more. In the 1930s, the area became a part of the Fort Worth school district. The building was later known as Dunbar Middle School. In February 2008, the former school became the Stop Six Heritage Center.[4]
The JPS Health Center Stop Six - Walter B. Barbour of theJPS Health Network (Tarrant County Hospital District) is in Stop Six.[7] It includes behavioral and dental services.[8][9]
In 1878 the Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church was constructed.[10]
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