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Rainbow, Texas
History
"Rainbow is
on Farm Road 200 four miles northeast of Glen Rose in northeast Somervell
County. Among the first settlers was William Porter, who established
a school in the late 1860s; for several decades the area was referred
to as the Porter school district. By the 1890s a community had developed,
and the residents requested a post office. When the townspeople gathered
to name the community a thunderstorm broke out, followed by a rainbow.
The residents, struck by the beauty of the rainbow, named their town
after it. A post office was opened in Rainbow in 1899. By 1910 the
community had half a dozen stores, a church, and a school. In the
1920s a newspaper, the Rainbow Reminder, served the estimated 113
residents. Throughout the twentieth century Rainbow has served as
a church and school community for area farmers. After the 1920s the
population decreased, reaching a low of forty in 1960. By 1981 the
number of residents had increased to seventy-six. This growth may
be due in part to the opening of nearby Dinosaur Valley State Park
in the 1970s. Through 2000 the population was still reported as seventy-six."
David
Minor, “Rainbow, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed September
11, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/rainbow-tx. |
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113
million year old Dinosaur Tracks in the Paluxy River bed.
US Highway 67 to FM 205 for 4 miles to Park Road 59; then one mile
to the park headquarters |
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