Texas Spring Palace

The Texas Spring Palace in Fort Worth, was an agricultural fairground designed to attract settlers and investors to Texas, which opened, after construction that was completed in barely a month, May 29, 1889. At the outset of its second season, May 30, 1890, a flash fire burned the building to the ground in a matter of minutes. Only one life was lost, that of a heroic Englishman, Al Hayne who risked and lost his life helping women and children escape from the flames.