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 Barnard's Trading Post No. 2
N 32° 16.835 W 097° 37.277
14S E 629835 N 3572371
Texas Historical Marker with a little pre-Glen Rose history, noting the arrival of the Barnard brothers to the area, and the influence one of their trading posts had.
Waymark Code: WMNZAY
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 05/28/2015
Views: 9
This marker is on the north side of US 67, just slightly west of its intersection with Somervell County Road 308. The historic George's Creek Baptist Church is just down CR 308 from here.
Marker Number: 12197
Marker Text:
The Torrey brothers of Connecticut and their childhood friend George Barnard, with President Sam Houston as a partner, contracted to build a series of trading posts along the Brazos River in 1843. Barnard's friendly manner made the Indians his friends, paving the way for more peaceful frontier settlement. In 1846, George ransomed a young girl, Juana Cavasos, from a group of Comanches at the post on Tehuacana Creek near Waco for $300. By 1847 she had married his brother Charles.
In 1849, Charles and George established a post within this valley where Charles and Juana would live. In view of Comanche Peak in modern-day Hood County, the second post was four miles north of this site and near a Shawnee-Delaware village. Trading goods from a bulletproof "dog-run" log house, the brothers did an excellent business, and Juana's influence on the region equaled theirs. Two Anglo communities sprang up in the area: George's Creek and Fort Spunky.
The government relocated the area's Indian population to Oklahoma in 1859; the need for a trading post dwindled. 1860 found Charles and Juana beginning a community on the Paluxy River, where he built a large stone gristmill. The town that grew around the mill was called Barnard's Mill, later renamed Glen Rose. (1998)
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