Some Tonkawa men were employed as scouts for the Texas Rangers and United States Army.

Torrey Trading Houses opened as a part of the Sam Houston peace policy to develop friendly relationships with native tribes.

[8] They bought from, and sold to, the Indians on a banking and credit system, enabling them to also recover stolen horses and human captives.

The Torreys sold their business to George Barnard in 1848,[9] who with his brother Charles [10] moved the Tehuacana store in Limestone County to near Comanche Peak.

County funds at the time limited the repair, which eliminated the clock tower.

Educational competition from the public-school system caused enrollment to taper off until the institution was shut down.

[18] Under the New Deal Works Progress Administration (WPA), Glen Rose built a new water and sewage system in the 1930s, as well as school buildings, a canning plant, and low-water dams.

[20] Squaw Creek Reservoir, which provides cooling water for the power plant, also has become a popular recreation site.

[21] The tragic Paluxy River flood in 1908 uncovered three-toed prints from the Cretaceous period, possibly Acrocanthosaurus, and were discovered by high school student George Adams in the limestone river bed.

[22] Adams later ended up selling self-manufactured fake "giant man tracks"[23] to tourists sometime during the 1930s, sparking a debate about whether humans existed alongside dinosaurs.

Resident Jim Ryals dug out the actual dinosaur prints and sold them to tourists.

Paleontologist Roland T. Bird of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City spotted the Adams "giant man tracks" in a tourist shop in Gallup, New Mexico, and, while recognizing them as fakes, was still intrigued enough to travel to Somervell County to see the Glen Rose area for himself.