Question: What town was known as “the richest little city in the state of Texas” between 1911 and 1923?
Answer: Niles City. The one-half-square-mile town of just over 500 inhabitants contained the Fort Worth Stock Yards and several meatpacking plants, which were valued at more than $12 million when Niles City was established in 1911 to avoid annexation by the City of Fort Worth. It was named in honor of Louville Veranus Niles of Boston, a large stockholder in the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company. In 1923, Fort Worth annexed Niles City in spite of litigation to block the effort.