One of my favorite Star-Telegram editors kept a slender paperback book at his desk titled “Who Was Hulen? An Attempt to find the Origin of Street Names in Fort Worth.”
Exactly who was the namesake of Hulen Street, the 11-mile thoroughfare that begins at Crestline Road and travels south, then east, toward the Tarrant County line? He was Maj. Gen. John Augustus Hulen (1871-1941). He supervised the training of doughboys at Camp Bowie — which is how Camp Bowie Boulevard, the popular street partly paved with red bricks, got its name. The World War I military camp, which covered 2,100 acres west of the Trinity River, was named after Jim Bowie, a hero who fell at the Alamo.
Lancaster Avenue was named for John L. Lancaster (1869-1962), president of the Texas & Pacific Railway, which built the tracks that still parallel the roadway…