Editing Forest Hill, Texas (section)

==History==
Forest Hill began around 1860. The community was called '''Brambleton Station''' and '''Forest Hill Village''' before being named Forest Hill.<ref name="ForestHillHistory">"[http://www.foresthilltx.org/aboutus/history.htm History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120202536/http://www.foresthilltx.org/aboutus/history.htm |date=2008-11-20 }}." ''City of Forest Hill''. Retrieved on November 26, 2008.</ref> By 1896 the community had its first schools and was established as a suburb of Fort Worth.<ref name="Handbook">{{Handbook of Texas|id=hef02|name=Forest Hill, Texas (Tarrant County)}}</ref> In 1905 Old Mansfield Road and Forest Hill Drive were the city's two main roads. In 1912 citizens drilled a "crooked hole well," the first private water system in the community.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> By 1925 the community had 25 residents and two businesses.<ref name="Handbook"/> Forest Hill gained a new source of water in the early 1940s. By 1944 Trentman Company and the Johnson Campbell Company began building homes. The owners of the private water system sold it to Texas Water Company.

The community incorporated as a village on March 16, 1946.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> In the late 1940s the village had around 90 people.<ref name="Handbook"/> In 1949 the village petitioned to be relabeled as a city after reaching 500 citizens; on April 8 of that year the village was relabeled as a city. By 1954 the volunteer fire department, the court, and the corporation court opened.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> The city had 1,519 people in the mid-1950s.<ref name="Handbook"/>

The city expanded in the 1960s.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> In 1967 the city had 3,800 people; the city grew due to its proximity to Fort Worth.<ref name="Handbook"/> By the early 1970s the city adopted the Forest Hill Home Rule Charter in order to more easily annex territory and to allow for better governance.<ref name="ForestHillHistory"/> The city had 10,250 people in 1976 and 11,482 in 1990.<ref name="Handbook"/> In the 1970s, it elected its first female mayor, Jackie Larson.