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304 Barnard's Mill 315 SW Barnard St. Early Texas grist mill. Built like a fort -- with gun ports and walls 3 feet thick at bottom -- to withstand Indian attacks. Constructed in 1860 ... 12197 Barnard's Trading Post No. 2 US 67, 8 mi. E of Glen Rose. North side of the road, just west of intersection with CR 308/CR 406. The Torrey brothers of Connecticut and their childhood friend George Barnard, with President Sam Houston as a partner, contracted to build a series ... 13768 Booker Home US 67, 2 mi. W of Glen Rose This home was built in the early 1870s by William G. McCamant, who came to Texas about 1856. McCamant, who had worked for the creation of Somervell ...

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684 Campbell Building 202 Barnard St. Built by T. B. Campbell, M.D., and wife Julia in 1894-95. Native limestone walls are 18" thick; pillars and window sills hand-hewn. Has housed general ... 800 Chalk Mountain Cemetery from Stephenville, take SH 67 southeast about 18 miles, continue .25 miles south past village of Chalk Mountain, turn S on CR 198, then E into Somervell County and S on CR 2015. Church and cemetery are on CR 2015. The village of Chalk Mountain originated as a trading center before the Civil War. The earliest burial at Chalk Mountain Cemetery, the only burial ...

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1226 Dinosaur Tracks northeast corner of courthouse square Formed 100,000,000 years ago, tracks of 3 kinds of dinosaurs are preserved in the limestone below Paluxy River. Types include Acrocanthosaurus (a ...

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1781 First National Bank 100 Bernard St. Hand hewn-native stone structure, built 1896 by A. P. Humphreys, as saloon. Lodge hall upstairs hosted dances, socials, stage shows. First National ...

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13205 George's Creek Baptist Church E of Glen Rose on US 67, then N on CR 308 to George's Creek, almost to the intersection with CR 2174 The history of the George's Creek community can be traced to two men who passed through the area on an 1841 expedition from the Republic of Texas ... 23509 George's Creek Cemetery marker pending marker pending

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13767 Home of A. J. ("Jack") Hart East on US 67, south on FM 199, southwest on CR 403, private property. Home of A. J. ("Jack") Hart (1832-1896). Near Hart Crossing on Brazos River. Builder, a Confederate veteran, was an organizer (1875) of Somervell ...

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12198 Lanham Mill Community 1.2 mi. W of Glen Rose on US 67; 4 mi. N on FM 205; 1 mi. E on CR 1008 William and Mary E. Lanham and their family came to Texas from Tennessee about 1870. They purchased land and settled on a farm at the confluence ...

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15571 Marks-English Hospital Glen Rose 17024 Mineral Springs Primitive Baptist Church 1104 Hereford St. On Sunday, May 30, 1886, Elder Wilson Hufner and W. L. Rogers founded this church in nearby Post Oak. Charter members were J. O. Soap, his wife, ...

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18365 Oden Cemetery West on US 67, 10.1 miles to CR 2013, South 3.3 miles to CR 2015. Go right about 1.1 miles to the Cemetery & Church. The Cemetery will be on the left. Established 1888 3814 Old Somervell County Jail Corner of Cedar and Vernon, Glen Rose N/A

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13765 Parker-Davis House, 1890 Near FM 56 on private property Built by James T. Parker, a Confederate veteran who in a 42-day wagon trip moved from Tennessee to Texas in 1871. Taught, farmed, served as county ... 14017 Post Oak Community 4 miles north on FM 56 Settled in the years following the Civil War, post Oak was an agricultural community for most of its history. Its name, derived from trees which ...

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13766 Snyder Sanitarium 205 SW Barnard St. Hundreds of natural springs and artesian wells made Glen Rose a health resort at the turn of the century. George Paul Snyder (1878-1942), a native ... 4977 Somervell County Somervell County Courthouse grounds. 1965 bronze plaque replaced 1936 original. Named for Alexander Somervell (1796-1854), native of Maryland, veteran of the Battle of San Jacinto, secretary of War under Texas President David ... 4978 Somervell County Courthouse Courthouse Square, Glen Rose Built 1893. Late Victorian style. Native limestone construction. County was organized in 1875 and named for General Alexander Somervell (1796-1854), ... 14614 Somervell County Veterans Glen Rose 5025 Squaw Creek Indian Fight from Glen Rose, take highway 67 East about .9 miles, then follow FM 144 north about 1.8 miles to picnic area In early 1864, a raiding party of twenty native Americans left Indian territory (Oklahoma), entered Texas and, passing west of Comanche Peak, descended ...

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5644 Veterans of the Confederacy, Spanish American War, World War I and II Courthouse Square, Glen Rose N/A