Workers stored the extracted helium in cylinders and shipped them to New Orleans to be sent to the war front in France. Soldiers from Camp Bowie guarded the plant, which was surrounded by an eight-foot, knot-free wooden fence. In 1918 the government paid Lone Star Gas Company $2 million to build a ten-inch pipeline from the Petrolia gas field in Clay County to the Fort Worth “chemical plant.”įor the sake of national security, the plant’s work was kept secret.
The pond is out of frame on the right.įort Worth’s helium plant had its origin in an experimental helium-extraction station that the government built in north Fort Worth in 1918 during World War I. On Decemthe Dallas Morning News reported that a “chemical plant” that required substances found in natural gas was being built near north Fort Worth. This photo shows the red-roofed building and two buildings just to the south in the aerial photo. The pond supplied water to cool the plant. The surviving buildings of the plant today. On Blue Mound Road east of Meacham Field, behind a tall security fence, sit buildings that once housed the world’s first helium plant, which the Navy operated to fill its airships during the 1920s.
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