Weatherford

Weatherford is a city in and the seat of Parker County, Texas, United States. The 2010 United States Census expressed the populace as being 29,969. A Evidence of an earlier, fizzled endeavor to colonize the area can be found in the relinquished lodge from 1852-53 found 6 miles 9.7 km south of present day Weatherford on the J.H. Voorhies cultivate.

In 1854, Methodist Reverend Pleasant Tackett drove 15 pioneer families into a land they called "Goshen," which would later turn out to be a piece of Parker County, itself to be made the next year by the endeavors of State Representative Isaac Parker and State Senator Thomas Jefferson Weatherford in the Texas State Legislature.