#TBT: Foch and Throckmorton streets

Have you ever wondered how to pronounce Foch Street? Where did that name come from, anyway?

We looked into it in honor of Throwback Thursday, or #tbt.

Foch Street, originally Franklin Street, was named after WWI French military commander Ferdinand Foch, according to history.com. His victory at the Second Battle of Marne led to the end of the fighting, according to history.com, and he was named a British field marshal and marshal of Poland.

The renaming of Franklin Street to Foch Street was announced on the front page of the Oct. 29, 1922 issue of The Fort Worth Star-Telegram when the City Commission submitted a proposal to Mayor W. E. Cockrell to change the names of 275 streets. The changes were necessary because of duplications and similarity of names in districts annexed in July 1922, according to the article.

For the record: It’s fosh, with a long o.

Another Fort Worth street name history, in honor of #tbt:

Throckmorton Street

The street is named after physician and lawyer James Webb Throckmorton, according to the book Who was Hulen? by Werner Magnus.

Throckmorton served in the Mexican War at first as a soldier later strictly as a physician, according to the Texas State Historical Association website. He went on to practice medicine and law before being elected to the Texas House of Representatives, and the Texas Senate. In 1865 General Kirby Smith appointed him Confederate Commissioner to Native Americans, where he negotiated treaties and earned the nickname "Old Leathercoat," according to the TSHA website.

This story was originally published February 11, 2016 at 5:40 AM with the headline "#TBT: Foch and Throckmorton streets."