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John St. Helen – An Assassin in Granbury? Part One
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…
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PLEASANT THORP: PIONEER AND VISIONARY
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…
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Setting the Record Straight: How We Got Those Names!
By Melinda Jo Ray | March 26, 2026 Hood County was formed in November 1866 by an act of the Eleventh Texas Legislature. The area had been within the Mexican Municipality of San Felipe de…
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THIS HOUSE WE CALL HOME
THIS HOUSE WE CALL HOMEA History of the David Lee Nutt Family Home.By Melinda Jo Ray March 12, 2026 This house the Bridge Street History Center calls home was never “just a house”. It…
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Granbury Founder A. P. Gordon: Merchant, Civic Leader, and the John St. Helen Mystery
March 12, 2026By Melinda Jo Ray Granbury Founder A. P. Gordon: Merchant, Civic Leader, and Landlord to the Mysterious John St. Helen (aka John Wilkes Booth) What do the Langdon Center Property, the building on…
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