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    Glen Rose, Texas
    Glen Rose, Texas
    Glen Rose, Texas
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    Glen Rose, Texas

    By Gene Fowler and Somervell County Historical Commission

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    Charles Barnard, a Connecticut entrepreneur, settled in the Brazos Valley in 1849, running an Indian Trading Post. He built a gristmill in 1860 near the confluence of the Brazos and Paluxy Rivers, around which the town of Glen Rose sprang up. Captured here in over 200 vintage photographs and postcards is the history of this quintessential little Texas town, from its origins as a mill town, to the bedroom community of Fort Worth that it has become today. In its earliest days, settlers flocked to the region from the war-torn South during the Civil War. By the 1900s, both Somervell County and Glen Rose established fame as a tourist resort, offering springs and artesian waters to heal the body and spirit. Naturopathic and magnetic healers built sanitariums, while locals built tourist parks to entertain the crowds that came for rest and relaxation. Showcased here are images of the Hill postcard collection, which relay the intriguing story of Glen Rose as a recreation mecca, the Moonshine Capital of Texas during Prohibition, the discovery of the infamous dinosaur tracks, and its development as it enters the 21st century.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateFeb 19, 2002
    ISBN9781439613351
    Glen Rose, Texas
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    Gene Fowler

    Gene Fowler served as pastor in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), prior to his death in 2020. He earned a Ph.D. in pastoral theology from Princeton Theological Seminary and while he served the Church authored Caring Through the Funeral: A Pastor’s Guide (2004) and Church Abuse of Clergy: A Radical New Understanding (2020). He was dedicated to the study of pastoral theology in the context of the local congregation.

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      Glen Rose, Texas - Gene Fowler

      Commission

      INTRODUCTION

      Long before Dr. E.B. Earp coined the slogan, Glen Rose for Health and Pleasure in 1929, Native Americans had been visiting the idyllic site for generations. Tonkawas and Caddoan bands camped at riparian springs of healing waters. They swam in the flowing Paluxy River and hunted in the limestone hills. Their legends still haunt the rocky bluffs that soar above the meandering river.

      Settlement of the valley began about 1860 when Charles and Juana Cavasos Barnard built a grist mill on the banks of the Paluxy. The community that sprang up became known as Barnard’s Mill. After Barnard sold the mill to T.C. Jordan of Dallas for $65,000 (paid in $20 gold pieces), Mrs. Jordan renamed the verdant oasis Rose Glen for its tangles of vines and wild roses. A community vote reversed the name to the equally poetic Glen Rose.

      In 1875, the village became the seat of Somervell County, and Jordan donated land for a courthouse square. He added a cotton gin to the mill, and for a time, the snowy white fiber became the mainstay of Glen Rose’s economy, as it did in many a small Texas town.

      Glen Rose, however, was no run-of-the-mill burg. As early as the 1870s, the population of about 350 grew in the summer. Campers in covered wagons flocked to the valley to drink the bracing spring waters laced with healthy doses of sulphur and other minerals. The first of Glen Rose’s famous flowing wells was drilled in the 1880s.

      In time, hundreds of the artesian fountains gurgled and spurted from the Somervell County soil. Magnetic healers, chiropractors, and massage therapists established sanitariums, and parks dotted the winding Paluxy where folks could stay in cabins and relax under massive oaks, elms, and pecans. Visiting Glen Rose for health and pleasure indeed became a substantial part of the local economy.

      In the 1920s and ‘30s, one pleasurable pastime, guzzling the bootleg firewater cooked in the hills, crowned Somervell County as the Moonshine Capital of Texas.

      Guests in the dimple in the cheek of Texas also came to Dinosaur Valley and the Petrified City to admire the area’s abundance of prehistoric dinosaur tracks, as well as the many homes and other buildings constructed with petrified wood. Some came seeking the fabled haunts of the mysterious John St. Helen, a Glen Rose pioneer later rumored to have been John Wilkes Booth, assassin of President Lincoln.

      Today, folks still come to splash in the Paluxy. They come for bluegrass festivals, religious pageants, wildlife tours, and just to chase away the big-city blues, but it’s important—it’s a necessity of life - to remember days gone by, places and people come and gone.

      In that spirit, the Somervell County Historical Commission dedicates Glen Rose for Health and Pleasure to Don and Vivian Hill and to Dr. E.B. Earp’s daughter, Dorothy Jo Osborn, for preserving many of the images in this book.

      Don and Vivian Hill stand ready to assist customers in their store on the square. Hill’s store, with its candy and toys, was the most fun place to go as a kid with a nickel, says Dorothy Leach. "I’m sure many a child went

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