Granbury Opera House, Granbury Texas Presents The Johnny Cash Show

APRIL 11-12/18-19: Granbury Opera House


The Johnny Cash Show
Returns to the Granbury Opera House,
starring the country's leading Johnny Cash Tribute Artist, Dan Whyms,
and the original Rock Island Line Band!
Seating is limited so reserve your tickets now!
Call 1-800-547-4697 for reservations!

Ladies Break Night, Granbury, Texas, Thursday-February 21

Historic Granbury Merchants Association presents,

Ladies Break Night

Thursday, Feb 21st, 2008, 5pm – 8pm.

This is a night for ladies that need a much deserved break.

Bring your friends and join us for food, drinks and fun.

For more information, call 817-573-5299.

New Year's Eve Gospel Concert, Granbury Opera House

Join in the New Year's Eve Festivities in Granbury Texas!

We love living in Granbury and enjoy the small town atmosphere and the wonderful Holiday celebrations! One of our favorites is the Annual New Year's Eve Gospel Concert at the Granbury Opera House on the historic Granbury Square!

Great gospel music, black eye peas, and cornbread at midnight!
Box Office Opens at 7:00 pm
Concert: 8:00 p.m. - midnight

Tickets: $15
Contact: Dianne Davis ~ 817-573-3800

Happy Holidays from The Granbury Area Bed and Breakfast Association!

Granbury Live Christmas Concert, Granbury Texas historic square

Remembering the Reason for the Season ...
Enjoy sacred and secular Christmas songs performed by the New Granbury Live Band and Allan Asbury, Christian recording artist.

Concerts run through December 23rd - tickets are selling like hotcakes. Call 1-800-989-8240 for your favorite seats today!

View "DREAMING OF A WHITE CHRISTMAS" - Granbury Live Christmas Concert Video .. and read the REVIEW BY RICK MAUCH, HOOD COUNTY NEWS

Happy Holidays from the Granbury Area Bed and Breakfast Association and Historic Granbury Merchants Association

Need an "attitude adjustment"?

From Tiberia at Barking Rocks Winery, just N. of Granbury: "Our first Friday gathering in December will be the 7th from 7 till 11. Joe Henderson will be plucking the strings and sharing his original songs with us. Joe is a long time friend. We have watched him and his family grow over the years and his songs are in many cases a reflection of these experiences and relationships. We will hopefully be burning some wood in the pit outside. So bring your morsels and attitudes to share and we will pop the appropriate corks to make the occasion flow."

If you have experienced First Friday gatherings at Barking Rocks, please post your comments. We'd like to hear from you!

Make Granbury, Texas your next overnight destination! Granbury Area Bed and Breakfast Association Members offer a variety of accommodations, and area merchants welcome you with sights and sounds of the Holidays!

Reflections of Granbury 1858-1945 .. A Candlelight Tour of Homes

A Preserve Granbury Event

Saturday, December 1st from 2-10 p.m. and

Sunday, December 2nd from Noon to 6 p.m.

Dedicated to the memories of Mary Kate Durham and Glenda Pirkle,

historians and community leaders

• Tour seven privately owned homes - at each house you'll discover a different era of daily life in a small Texas town
• Meet and greet Granbury's pioneers and historic characters
• Savor the sights and sounds of the holidays around an authentic Victorian courthouse square
• Enjoy Yuletide musical entertainment

Tickets: $15 days of tour ** $12 in advance ** $10 in advance for groups of 20 or more

Sponsored by The First National Bank of Granbury Since 1887

Call Granbury Convention and Visitors Bureau 1-800-950-2212 or 817-573-5548

See our Granbury Area Bed & Breakfast lodging opportunities

for your Granbury Getaway!

Granbury, Texas .. childhood memories

As I gaze over the crystal waters of beautiful Lake Granbury, I am thankful for our many blessings, and my mind wanders back to my childhood days in Stephenville, Texas, just 30 miles west of Granbury. In the late 50's, our Stephenville High School Band and Orchestra traveled to Granbury for competitions in the old Decker Gym, now The Boys and Girls Club of Hood County. What is now the Groggy Dawg Marina and Grill was nothing but a huge calache pit, and as I remember, hardly anything was further down on Highway 144S. We crossed the 377 bridge over the Brazos on our way to shop in Ft. Worth, especially for school clothes and for Christmas, (very special occasions)! Those Were the days! That of course was before the Brazos River was dammed at DeCordova in 1969, and Lake Granbury became a reality. John Graves' "Goodbye to a River" depicts one writer's account of this moment in history.

The Granbury Square was just a mere glimpse of the square today. A few years later renovations began on many of the wonderful historic buildings on the square. Yes, we are very thankful to be a part of this great community, and remember some of those defining moments in Granbury's exciting history. We will be sharing more!

By Betty (Bailey) Moss, Class of '61, Stephenville High School.

Granbury, Texas .. the early days

In 1854 "Uncle Tommy" Lambert and Amon Bond led a group of emigrants, mostly from Tennessee, across the Brazos River to the west bank into traditional Indian territory. That same year, Elizabeth Crockett brought her family from Tennessee to settle on a league of land awarded by the Republic of Texas to heirs of men who fought in the Texas Revolution in 1836. In 1866 brothers J. and J. H. Nutt donated forty acres of riverfront property to form a new townsite, and Hood County was carved out of Johnson and Erath counties and named in honor of Gen. John Bell Hood. The new town was named for Gen. Hiram Bronson Granbury, who led Confederate troops from this area into battle during the Civil War. Three spirited elections were needed to make Granbury the county seat, instead of the older Glen Rose and Fort Spunky further south. The first two courthouses burned, the second one in 1875, at which time Somervell County was demarcated out of Hood County. Granbury's new three-story courthouse was built of Brazos limestone and had a lighted clock tower.