“Top O' Hill Terrace is a historical site that was purchased by Beulah Adams Marshall in the early 1920s. The land was transformed into a tea room where she hosted elegant teas and served dinners to patrons from Dallas and Fort Worth traveling along the Bankhead Highway. Later, in the late 1920s, Fred and Mary Browning bought the property and converted it into a casino, complete with an escape tunnel and a secret room that concealed the gambling equipment from police raids. The facilities at Top O' Hill Terrace also included a horse barn and a private stable where the Brownings kept their prized stud, Royal Ford, which they had purchased from oilman and Arlington Downs owner W. T. Waggoner.”
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