History

Soon after becoming a social studies teacher in 1950, Billy Sills began collecting artifacts and other material about the Fort Worth ISD and its history. In 1963 when he was appointed the first full-time social studies consultant, he, along with the help of the Fort Worth Council for Social Studies and others (significantly Lawrence Maynard, Leon Mitchell, and Ann Cotton), continued to collect artifacts and history for the Center’s collection. The Board of Education honored Billy in 1983 by naming the archives the Billy W. Sills Center for Archives of the Fort Worth ISD. The Center now occupies a beautiful space in the District Service Center located at 7060 Camp Bowie Blvd.