Next Tuesday night, April 14, 2026, at about 9:15 in the evening, Granbury citizens might want to pause to remember that it was at that hour 161 years ago that the man many consider to be one of America’s greatest presidents, Abraham Lincoln, was shot and killed by the stage actor, John Wilkes Booth. Many…

A hardy pioneer from Virginia, Pleasant Earl Thorp settled on the west banks of the Brazos River in 1854.  Naming the spot for himself and nearby springs in a branch of Stroud’s Creek, Thorp envisioned not just another settlement but an important town, and he spent almost the next forty years making the dream come true.  At…