Left: 1970s photo Courtesy of the Musgrove family; Right: 2016 Photo by Danny Fulgencio
When a schoolteacher crash-landed in a cotton field at Buckner Boulevard and John West Road, it inadvertently launched White Rock Airport in 1941. With the beginnings of a runway already carved out, Curtis Parker and M.D. Reeves created a 120-acre facility that housed a 2,450-foot runway and dozens of hangers filled with single-engine planes. Many neighbors learned to fly there, including Curtis Musgrove Sr., pictured here with his son Curtis Musgrove Jr. in the 1970s. The airport closed in 1974, after which Fox & Jacobs bought the land to build homes, many of which are still standing today. The once-open space remains tightly packed with houses now.
