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By Danny Gallagher Oct 22, By Eva Raggio Oct 21, More ». Sign Up Now No Thanks. Become a member and go ad-free! Support Our Journalism. The collection of saloons, brothels and bathhouses that sprouted around the stockyards led to such a degree of drunkenness, knife fights and general debauchery that it became known throughout the West as "Hell's Half Acre.

The Fort Worth Stockyards still echo that dusty history, with western-style saloons and steakhouses. But everywhere else the city is rapidly evolving beyond its cowboy past. Like other large Texas cities, Fort Worth, long associated with its larger sister city 30 miles to its east, Dallas, is drawing thousands of new residents, revitalizing its downtown and reinventing itself.

Fort Worth today is Texas's fifth largest city and the 17 th biggest in the country. Its population has grown from , in to more than , last year. Its economy is no longer reliant on cattle and processed meat and draws a growing number of dot. Most recently, the city made national headlines as the hometown of Wendy Davis, the Texas Democratic Senator whose hour filibuster against anti-abortion legislation last summer shot her into political super-stardom and paved the wave for her current gubernatorial run.

Around Fort Worth, Davis is known less for her political theatrics and more for helping to usher in downtown's revival. Once-sleepy stretches such as the West Seventh Street Corridor, Sundance Square and Southside are morphing into hipster enclaves, replete with craft beer bars, coffeehouses and the Movie Tavern, where patrons could watch the latest X-Men flick while munching on a plate of edamame and sipping chardonnay.