Glen Rose, Texas
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Glen Rose is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Somervell County, Texas, United States. As of the 2012 census estimate, the town/city population was 2,502. Jordan's wife, a native of Scotland, decided to rename the town Rose Glen to reflect the area's natural surroundings. The people later voted to call the improve Glen Rose. A postal service 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 instead of around 1892, but burned down a year later.
Throughout the reconstructionfrom the 1900s to the 1920s, Glen Rose was home to approximately 1,000 citizens .
During Prohibition, the region was a center of moonshining and Glen Rose became known as the "whiskey woods capital of the state." The populace remained steady amid the Great Depression, although unemployment rates in both Glen Rose and Somervell County increased. As part of the New Deal, Glen Rose borrowed $80,000 under the Public Works Administration (PWA) to construct a new water and sewage system.
At the same time, Glen Rose interval from 1,050 inhabitants in 1940 to 1,248 in 1950.
The assembly of the Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant in the mid-1970s brought financial advantages and new inhabitants to the Glen Rose area.
111 rated businesses were positioned in Glen Rose as of 1991.
By 2000, the populace of the town/city had grown to 2,122 and the total number of rated businesses rose to 224.
Glen Rose is positioned at 32 14 12 N 97 45 14 W (32.236637, -97.753823), around the junction of U.S.
The town/city is situated nearly 17 miles (27 km) south of Granbury and 52 miles (84 km) southwest of Fort Worth. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 2.7 square miles (7.1 km ), all land.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Glen Rose has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Glen Rose is part of the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Dinosaur Valley State Park, positioned about 2 miles west of Glen Rose, features a large number of dinosaur footprints, the Glen Rose Formation, in the bed of the Paluxy River.
Glen Rose is served by the Glen Rose Independent School District.
Two newspapers have offices positioned in Glen Rose, the Glen Rose Reporter and the Glen Rose Newspaper.
Local tv stations that furnish coverage for the region are from the Dallas-Fort Worth and the Waco/Temple/Killeen (Central Texas) urbane areas.
Glen Rose is also served by Tarleton State University's National Public Radio partner KTRL 90.5 FM.
The Somervell County Salon is the dominant organization and blog in Somervell County dedicated to the opposition of the hospital district.
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Cities in Somervell County, Texas - County seats in Texas - Granbury micropolitan region - Populated places established in 1849 - 1849 establishments in Texas
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