Construction of a park in one of the oldest Black communities in Fort Worth has been delayed at least 10 months.
Councilwoman Deborah Peoples held a town hall meeting last month for residents of Mosier Valley to discuss Mosier Valley Park and other community issues. Construction of a park on the site of a former segregated Black school in the community has been discussed for more than 10 years.
Mosier Valley, located northeast of downtown Fort Worth off of West Euless Boulevard and south of Euless, is a freedmen settlement, built by formerly enslaved people after the Civil War. The park would be built where Mosier Valley School was located…