The town of Hurst, TX, is the original site of a small frontier fort called Bird’s Fort. In those days (around 1840s), this was hostile Indian country. At the fort, Sam Houston, General Edward H. Tarrant, and Ed Terrell signed a treaty with several Indian tribes in the area, that brought about an uneasy truce and opened the region up to settlement. Although the area had several settlers, the town wasn’t officially formed until 1903, when a railroad built a depot in what would become Hurst.