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
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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