The remnants of a World War I airstrip — marked by the silhouette of an airplane — will be preserved in a far north Fort Worth neighborhood.
Fort Worth City Council members approved zoning Oct. 13 that will maintain a .39-acre site on the western end of the 2700 block of Muscogee Drive, nearly 2 miles from Hicks Field.
The remaining portion of Taliaferro Field No. 1, one of three Fort Worth airstrips established in early 1917 after the United States entered the war, is located in a fenced area off Muscogee. The site, initially recorded in 2002 during a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project, was designated as a highly significant endangered landmark after a 2023 historical survey, according to a city staff report…