Glen Rose, Somervell County TX
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| Latitude | 32.23667°N 32°14'12"N 32.23667 |
| Longitude | 97.75389°W 97°45'14"W -97.75389 |
| Elevation | 620 ft 189 m |
| Zip Code | 76043 |
| Area Code | 254 (exchanges 897 and 898) |
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The area was first settled in 1849 by Charles Barnard, who opened a trading post near Comanche Peak. After the region became a federal Indian reservation in 1855, Barnard moved his business to Fort Belknap. Circa 1859 when the reservation was abolished, he returned to the area and built the first store on what is now the site of Glen Rose.
A three-story stone gristmill was constructed along the Paluxy River and the town that grew up around it became known as Barnard's Mill. The mill was sold to T.C. Jordan of Dallas in 1871 for $65,000. Jordan's wife, a native of Scotland, decided to rename the town Rose Glen to reflect the area's natural surroundings. The citizens later voted to call the community Glen Rose. A post office opened in 1874.
When Somervell County was formed on March 15, 1875, Glen Rose was designated as its county seat. A Baptist college was organized in 1879 and was later sold to the Paluxy Baptist Association. In 1889, the northern Presbyterians opened Glen Rose Collegiate Institute (also known as Glen Rose College), which remained in operation for the next 15 to 20 years. A courthouse around Glen Rose's town square was completed around 1892, but burned down a year later. A newly built Romanesque Revival style courthouse was constructed soon after with locally quarried limestone. That building sustained damage in a 1902 tornado that also damaged part of the town square.
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Glen Rose, the county seat of Somervell County, is at the junction of U.S. Highway 67 and State Highway 144, on the Paluxy River in the central part of the county. The area was first settled in 1849 by Charles Barnard, who opened a trading post with his brother George Barnard near Comanche Peak. The Barnard brothers left the area in 1854 to operate a trading post on the Brazos Indian Reservation in present-day Young County. After the reservation was closed in 1859, Charles Barnard returned to the area and built the first store on what is now the site of Glen Rose. The next year he contracted with Milam County for a section of the land. County officials agreed to donate the title to him on the condition that Barnard build a flour and grist mill. He agreed, began construction on the mill, and named the town Barnard's Mill. The mill itself became a central part of community life; it served as a dance hall, as a meetinghouse, and in later years as the town hospital. By the 1980s it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1871 Barnard sold the mill to Maj. Tyler Calhoun Jordan of Dallas for $65,000. Popular tradition holds that Jordan's wife, Annie R. Lewis Jordan, suggested the name Rose Glen, because the scenic countryside reminded her of her native Scotland. However, census records indicate that she was born in Alabama. At a town meeting in 1872 residents agreed on the name Glen Rose rather than the alternative proposal. A post office was opened there in 1874, and Glen Rose became county seat of the newly formed Somervell County in 1875.
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