Arlington Historical Society Inc

Knapp Heritage Park consists of a one room schoolhouse, a one room cabin, a dog trot cabin, and the Bardin blacksmith barn. There is a general store located in James Knapp's law office. Open Saturday & Sunday 1:00 -4:00 and in September for the Front Street Festival. Come see our Blacksmith Presentation the last Sunday of each month.

The Historic Cemeteries on Arkansas Lane, located in the 600 block of West Arkansas between Matlock and South Center Street, are actually three separate cemeteries that were established independently, but are now combined into one single cemetery that serves as a monument to the history of Arlington, with earliest known burials in the 1850s. The eastern portion of the area was originally named Mill Branch Cemetery, and included the Eli Ford family and members of the M.T. Johnson family. This cemetery is the resting place of Colonel Middleton Tate Johnson, the father of Tarrant County. At his death in 1866, Col. Johnson was buried in the State Cemetery in Austin, but in 1870 his family moved his body to the family plot in Arlington. In 1936, the State of Texas marked his grave site with a Centennial Marker. In the 1950’s, family members petitioned the court to officially name this small section the M.T. Johnson Family Cemetery. This cemetery was also the only place in Arlington where black residents could be buried from 1900 to the 1950s. Most of these graves are located on the western section with the earliest known burial being in 1916.